~ The Diary of the Phoenix ~
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and his magical world belong to his respective owners and creators.
"We have research to do, she says, find books on Merlin, she says.... Oh for Merlin's sake Hermione the suns coming up!" Ron cried and Harry raised his emerald eyes from the page he had been reading to look out the common room window. Ron was right it was almost daylight.
"Hermione, I know I don't get much sleep as it is, but we do have classes tomorro-er-today and well I don't want to fall asleep in Potions, because Snape will murder me or something.. Hermione?" Harry said and the girl sighed and looked up from the book she was reading.
She looked surprised as she found that both Ron and Harry's attention was concentrated on her "Sorry we're you saying something?" She said politely and Ron rolled his eyes. With a snap Ron closed the book in front of him and got up from the table.
"I'm going to bed" He said and he stormed off towards the boys dormitories.
"What's wrong with him?" She asked sincerely confused by his actions. Harry shook his head at his friend.
"Come on Hermione, for once our Ron has had an excellent idea" He said getting up then offered her his hand.
"Oh? What's that?" She asked tiredly as he led her up the stairs.
"It's time to go to bed" Harry said smiling.
* * *
The three students did manage to get out of bed a few hours later, but it took allot of effort to force themselves into the potions dungeons, and even more to keep themselves awake while Snape rattled on about poly juice potions. "Potter, what's the use of a Polyjuice potion" He snarled
Harry yawned "To change into someone else, although it cannot be used for Human- Animal transformations." Snape looked annoyed, he had seemed to have forgotten about Moody and looked at Harry suspiciously as he continued the lesson.
The diary was returned to them at lunchtime though they really didn't get anytime to read it until that night, and then they once again had problems on finding a classroom, of course when they finally did find a classroom that they could use, interruptions continued to follow.
* * *
The door creaked open as Hermione had just opened the book causing Ron to sigh and look at the door. Sirius stood in front of them grinning "Good Evening, I was just wondering if I could join you?" The three nodded in response all looking too tired to care whether he was there or not, Sirius raised an eyebrow "Did you three get *any* sleep last night?" he asked and Ron turned and glared at Hermione.
"No" He growled "We spent the entire night tracing Merlin's family history,"
Sirius jumped in his chair his mouth had dropped open slightly and he suddenly looked very worried. "Why exactly?" He asked reluctantly when he noticed that Harry and Hermione were sending death glares towards their red- haired friend.
"Er- an assignment" Ron lied,
Sirius looked at them suspiciously. "I don't know what you three think you know, but its best if you don't find out for sure. Some things are better left in the shadows... do you understand?" The three shared a glance. Well yeah, they could understand that, but it was they 'why' question that made the whole thing entirely too confusing.
"Some things, are not worth the trouble," Sirius stressed and Harry nodded suddenly as he felt it was probably better to let his godfather and the professors think that they knew nothing, but to his surprise Sirius sighed. "You don't understand, please promise me you'll drop this, your meddling in affairs that should be long forgotten,"
But before the three students could say a word the door creaked open, everyone went silent as Aliandra walked in. "Oh, don't mind me" Aliandra said as her gaze fell upon the four. Hermione watched Sirius tense.
"Do you want to come with us?" Ron asked looking down at the blue crystal making it as though the other conversation had never existed.
Aliandra thought about it for a second. "Oh I don't know, running down memory lane at this time of night is my idea of fun, I was about to turn in, I just had to grab a few papers that I've got to go over in the morning." She said gently.
Harry looked at her, she certainly looked tired, but there was something else there that told him there was more to the story than he thought. "You haven't been sleeping" Sirius said looking at her carefully
Aliandra looked away, "I, I've been having nightmares,"
"I'm sorry" Sirius said
Ron Hermione and Harry looked at each other in confusion, they were all thinking the same thing; why would Sirius be apologizing for Aliandra's nightmares. Suddenly Hermione's face lit up, "Aliandra, if your not going to get to sleep anyway, you should come with us I mean, we'll see Lily, and well it is your past."
"You say that like its a good thing" Aliandra muttered, earning a concerned look from Sirius who was the only one who heard it.
Ron suddenly realized something, "Hold on" he said "Lily... OUCH!!" He screamed as Hermione kicked him under the table. Sirius and Ali looked at the two of them.
"Come on Aliandra, you might find you won't get nightmares." Hermione said softly. Sirius looked away at this comment but Ali smiled gently
"I'm sorry but I really don't..."
"You scared Ali?" Sirius interrupted surprising both himself and her as he looked into her sad azure eyes.
"Of course I'm not scared!" She said more to herself than anyone else in the room. "I just don't see the point" She said, pleading silently with Sirius.
"If your not scared, then you might as well come" Sirius said shortly looking straight into her eyes, it was if he was daring her to say no.
"Fine!" she exclaimed glaring at Sirius. She threw the papers and the book that she was holding onto the desk, it made a bang that made them all jump.
* * *
The five of them reached in and touched the crystal. Only to be once again pulled straight down. Hermione and Ron once again hit the dirt; Harry landed perfectly on his feet, and Sirius the same, but catching Ali in his arms before she hit the ground.
"I always told Lily we had to do something about the landing." Ali muttered. Then she seemed to realise that she was being held by Sirius, and jumped out of his arms looking away, Hermione grinned as she noticed the blush that had crept across the young woman's face as she refused to look her husband in the eye.
Hermione and Ron got off the ground, "I really want to know how you have managed to land on your feet every time" Ron said glaring at Harry.
"Ahh well I'm just talented aren't I," Harry grinned.
"Oh no. I know where we are," Aliandra said suddenly looking very pale. She seemed to be slowly moving back into the shadows like she didn't want to be there. "Why this memory," she whispered sadly.
Sirius didn't look any better. His expression was pained and his eye's sparkled with sadness, with feeling that Harry could say he'd only seen once before, whenever he talked about his parents. Hermione looked at the two, they both were looking around for means to escape, it seemed like they were both very uncomfortable . Hermione turned to watch the scene as she saw the young Aliandra walk past once again with her long flowing cloak on.
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"Sirius"
"That's me, and that star up there" He said pointing to the sky, "and if you spell it differently it can"
"Don't be an idiot"
"Someone's in a good mood"
"When am I not" Aliandra grinned
"In the mornings when you wake up finding one of my perfectly crafted pranks, like not being able to see your head"
Aliandra glared at him. "Your no better yourself when your in the same situation, especially when your dancing and singing on top of the Gryffindor table devoting your love to Snape in your lovely pajamas"
"I have to admit, that was the best prank you ever pulled off," Sirius said frowning, "I suffered for days, James and Remus found that extremely funny"
"Along with the rest of the school." the young Aliandra said grinning, "It was hard to match though" she said thoughtfully
Sirius laughed. "So you wanted to talk?"
"Yeah" She said and she sat down on the bench next to Sirius.
"What about?"
She bit her lip. "Umm, the other night"
~~~~
Hermione could see where this was going. She turned and looked at the older versions of Sirius and Aliandra. Sirius had sadness etched across his features while Ali's eyes sparkled with unshed tears.
~~~~
"Which bit, getting soaked, race up the tree, spying on Lily and James?"
"Well, the kiss"
"Oh. Yeah that's what James said it would be about."
"Yeah, umm" Aliandra's eyes looked everywhere except at Sirius.
~~~~
The two older versions were watching carefully. Harry swore that they could not be missing the slightest movement that their younger selves made.
~~~~
"Well what exactly do you want to know about it" Sirius asked carefully
"I, well, I don't know, you tell me, what should I know about it"
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"I don't know, what did it mean?"
The younger Sirius gave her an exasperated look. "Okay, well we're not getting very far are we"
"No,"
"Well do you just want to forget it ever happened" Sirius said
The younger Ali looked away. "Um, well, I dunno, is that what you want"
"I don't know!"
"Well there you go, we know one thing, we both don't know much" Ali concluded looking into the distance.
The younger Sirius looked at her strangely for a minute then laughed. "You have a point there my dear Watson"
"You really should stop reading those muggle books"
"How do you know I read muggle books"
"Because you've got James onto them."
"Did I really, he said it was a whole pile of shit, I'm going to have a nice little talk with him"
"Now I'm in trouble" Ali sighed
Sirius grinned, "don't worry I'll say a little birdie told me, and it has long golden hair and bright blue eyes"
"Thanks I really appreciate it" She said her voice dripping with sarcasm
"Anyway back to the topic of conversation, you do realize that this kiss could cause a lot of trouble for us?"
"Oh, why?"
"Well, were meant to be enemies"
"Yeah, well I mean, we've kinda dropped that a bit"
"Your the one who hasn't hit me back, I was expecting something really bad the next day after the whole invisible head thing, I was seriously scared all day that something was going to happen."
"I dunno, I think I'm running out of pranks, and you were the one that saved my life"
"Yeah well I don't want you dead, you can only get so much entertainment out of Snape"
"I dunno, you could get quite a bit"
"Actually I was going to ask you for the singing and dancing along table prank spell, charm whatever, I'd love to see him proclaim his love to Dumbledore. It'd be classic, I can almost see Dumbledore saying thank you as well"
Ali giggled softly "It was a few charms, they were tricky though"
"hmmm, right back to the topic" Sirius paused "Do you think there's a reason why were avoiding it?" Sirius asked moving closer to Ali.
The young Aliandra blushed. "Well, I,"
"Well?"
"Well probably"
He grinned, "So what did you have planned to say before you actually came out here?"
"What did you have planned to say" Ali said quickly dodging the question
"I asked first"
"Don't be immature"
"Lady's first"
"Since when have you been a gentleman"
"Okay, look I planned to do this" and he kissed her softly on the lips then moved away. "But I don't think it does any good for our status as enemies" a light blush crept across the blonde haired girls face as she stared silently into Sirius' chocolate eye's.
She shrugged "Oh well I'm out of pranks anyway" she muttered with a small smile on her face
Sirius looked at her strangely, "What?" he asked
"Just kiss me!" she exclaimed
For a second he looked shocked, then he grinned. "I ran out of pranks too" he whispered but before she could say anything there lips met, this time more passionately, her arms entwined around his neck and his arms encircled her waist.
* * *
Once again they were pulled back to their world. "I have to go" Aliandra said as soon as she hit the ground, grabbing her stuff she left before a word was said.
Sirius stared at where she had just walked out. "That was..." Sirius just shook his head as though he couldn't voice what he was thinking.
"Did we just make things worse between you two?" Ron asked biting his lip guiltily
"No, I don't believe so, but I think she might be hurting a bit in the next few days."
"Why exactly aren't you two happily together?" Hermione asked.
"Its not because of my parents deaths is it?" Harry asked.
"No, mainly because I caused her so much pain during those fifteen years afterwards."
"Well its not like you did that purposely" Harry said
"No, she knows that too, but Harry in that one day when Voldermort killed your parents, she lost her best friend, what she referred to as her brother and her husband, she's spent fifteen years hurting over that, she isn't going to run straight back into my arms." Sirius said, looking into the distance rather than catching anyones eye.
"Its sad, she loves you but she doesn't want to get hurt again" Hermione said dramatically
"Hermione, I'm not even sure if she loves me anymore" With that Sirius turned to leave.
"Sirius, before you go, why did you apologize for her nightmares?" Harry asked, that piece of information was really starting to bug him,
Sirius looked at the three of them for a minute. "That's a long story, one that I doubt will be recorded in that book, and one you don't need to know. Anyway you three should think about bed too, I believe you have a big quidditch game tomorrow Harry. Goodnight"
Hermione stared where he had left. "What did he mean by a long story?"
"Most likely a long story Hermione" Ron said
"That's not what I meant and you know it Ronald Weasley" Hermione glared
* * *
"I might go see her, I mean, yeah, maybe she can explain everything, or will explain everything that Sirius won't..." Hermione said as they walked into the common room.
Harry shrugged, "They both seem very secretive, although she is letting us read her diary.."
"Yeah from when she was fifteen" Ron commented,
"Yeah, but it still shows a level of trust, but then we don't know if she trusts us, or trusts that Lily would trust Harry" Hermione said carefully.
Ron and Harry shared a look, "Where does she get these ideas?" Ron asked,
"I have no idea, but it must come with being brilliant" Harry said and Hermione blushed slightly,
"Er- well anyway, are you ready for the game tomorrow?" Hermione asked Harry reluctantly, Quidditch wasn't her favorite topic of conversation, she just wanted to change the subject.
"Should be, I've just got a bad feeling about it, you know, like something's.... Never mind, I think I'm just getting jumpy" Harry said shaking of the feelings, "The teams ready, we should beat Slytherin easy"
"They are really ready, you should of seen them train Hermione!! I've never seen better players, not even in the national teams!" Ron exclaimed,
"Er- he's exaggerating a bit" Harry added sheepishly
"Whatever you reckon Harry, leave that for Hermione to decide," Ron exclaimed then turned back to Hermione, "It was amazing, they're all so fast, even the players on the slower brooms, but none of them could out play Harry,"
Harry raised an eyebrow and had to stifle a laugh, he shook in mirth at the words that were rolling out Ron's mouth, "Come on, its time for bed" Harry said still trying not to laugh.
The other two nodded,"Good luck for the morning then" Ron said to Hermione
"Yeah, Good luck"
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and his magical world belong to his respective owners and creators.
"We have research to do, she says, find books on Merlin, she says.... Oh for Merlin's sake Hermione the suns coming up!" Ron cried and Harry raised his emerald eyes from the page he had been reading to look out the common room window. Ron was right it was almost daylight.
"Hermione, I know I don't get much sleep as it is, but we do have classes tomorro-er-today and well I don't want to fall asleep in Potions, because Snape will murder me or something.. Hermione?" Harry said and the girl sighed and looked up from the book she was reading.
She looked surprised as she found that both Ron and Harry's attention was concentrated on her "Sorry we're you saying something?" She said politely and Ron rolled his eyes. With a snap Ron closed the book in front of him and got up from the table.
"I'm going to bed" He said and he stormed off towards the boys dormitories.
"What's wrong with him?" She asked sincerely confused by his actions. Harry shook his head at his friend.
"Come on Hermione, for once our Ron has had an excellent idea" He said getting up then offered her his hand.
"Oh? What's that?" She asked tiredly as he led her up the stairs.
"It's time to go to bed" Harry said smiling.
* * *
The three students did manage to get out of bed a few hours later, but it took allot of effort to force themselves into the potions dungeons, and even more to keep themselves awake while Snape rattled on about poly juice potions. "Potter, what's the use of a Polyjuice potion" He snarled
Harry yawned "To change into someone else, although it cannot be used for Human- Animal transformations." Snape looked annoyed, he had seemed to have forgotten about Moody and looked at Harry suspiciously as he continued the lesson.
The diary was returned to them at lunchtime though they really didn't get anytime to read it until that night, and then they once again had problems on finding a classroom, of course when they finally did find a classroom that they could use, interruptions continued to follow.
* * *
The door creaked open as Hermione had just opened the book causing Ron to sigh and look at the door. Sirius stood in front of them grinning "Good Evening, I was just wondering if I could join you?" The three nodded in response all looking too tired to care whether he was there or not, Sirius raised an eyebrow "Did you three get *any* sleep last night?" he asked and Ron turned and glared at Hermione.
"No" He growled "We spent the entire night tracing Merlin's family history,"
Sirius jumped in his chair his mouth had dropped open slightly and he suddenly looked very worried. "Why exactly?" He asked reluctantly when he noticed that Harry and Hermione were sending death glares towards their red- haired friend.
"Er- an assignment" Ron lied,
Sirius looked at them suspiciously. "I don't know what you three think you know, but its best if you don't find out for sure. Some things are better left in the shadows... do you understand?" The three shared a glance. Well yeah, they could understand that, but it was they 'why' question that made the whole thing entirely too confusing.
"Some things, are not worth the trouble," Sirius stressed and Harry nodded suddenly as he felt it was probably better to let his godfather and the professors think that they knew nothing, but to his surprise Sirius sighed. "You don't understand, please promise me you'll drop this, your meddling in affairs that should be long forgotten,"
But before the three students could say a word the door creaked open, everyone went silent as Aliandra walked in. "Oh, don't mind me" Aliandra said as her gaze fell upon the four. Hermione watched Sirius tense.
"Do you want to come with us?" Ron asked looking down at the blue crystal making it as though the other conversation had never existed.
Aliandra thought about it for a second. "Oh I don't know, running down memory lane at this time of night is my idea of fun, I was about to turn in, I just had to grab a few papers that I've got to go over in the morning." She said gently.
Harry looked at her, she certainly looked tired, but there was something else there that told him there was more to the story than he thought. "You haven't been sleeping" Sirius said looking at her carefully
Aliandra looked away, "I, I've been having nightmares,"
"I'm sorry" Sirius said
Ron Hermione and Harry looked at each other in confusion, they were all thinking the same thing; why would Sirius be apologizing for Aliandra's nightmares. Suddenly Hermione's face lit up, "Aliandra, if your not going to get to sleep anyway, you should come with us I mean, we'll see Lily, and well it is your past."
"You say that like its a good thing" Aliandra muttered, earning a concerned look from Sirius who was the only one who heard it.
Ron suddenly realized something, "Hold on" he said "Lily... OUCH!!" He screamed as Hermione kicked him under the table. Sirius and Ali looked at the two of them.
"Come on Aliandra, you might find you won't get nightmares." Hermione said softly. Sirius looked away at this comment but Ali smiled gently
"I'm sorry but I really don't..."
"You scared Ali?" Sirius interrupted surprising both himself and her as he looked into her sad azure eyes.
"Of course I'm not scared!" She said more to herself than anyone else in the room. "I just don't see the point" She said, pleading silently with Sirius.
"If your not scared, then you might as well come" Sirius said shortly looking straight into her eyes, it was if he was daring her to say no.
"Fine!" she exclaimed glaring at Sirius. She threw the papers and the book that she was holding onto the desk, it made a bang that made them all jump.
* * *
The five of them reached in and touched the crystal. Only to be once again pulled straight down. Hermione and Ron once again hit the dirt; Harry landed perfectly on his feet, and Sirius the same, but catching Ali in his arms before she hit the ground.
"I always told Lily we had to do something about the landing." Ali muttered. Then she seemed to realise that she was being held by Sirius, and jumped out of his arms looking away, Hermione grinned as she noticed the blush that had crept across the young woman's face as she refused to look her husband in the eye.
Hermione and Ron got off the ground, "I really want to know how you have managed to land on your feet every time" Ron said glaring at Harry.
"Ahh well I'm just talented aren't I," Harry grinned.
"Oh no. I know where we are," Aliandra said suddenly looking very pale. She seemed to be slowly moving back into the shadows like she didn't want to be there. "Why this memory," she whispered sadly.
Sirius didn't look any better. His expression was pained and his eye's sparkled with sadness, with feeling that Harry could say he'd only seen once before, whenever he talked about his parents. Hermione looked at the two, they both were looking around for means to escape, it seemed like they were both very uncomfortable . Hermione turned to watch the scene as she saw the young Aliandra walk past once again with her long flowing cloak on.
~~~~
"Sirius"
"That's me, and that star up there" He said pointing to the sky, "and if you spell it differently it can"
"Don't be an idiot"
"Someone's in a good mood"
"When am I not" Aliandra grinned
"In the mornings when you wake up finding one of my perfectly crafted pranks, like not being able to see your head"
Aliandra glared at him. "Your no better yourself when your in the same situation, especially when your dancing and singing on top of the Gryffindor table devoting your love to Snape in your lovely pajamas"
"I have to admit, that was the best prank you ever pulled off," Sirius said frowning, "I suffered for days, James and Remus found that extremely funny"
"Along with the rest of the school." the young Aliandra said grinning, "It was hard to match though" she said thoughtfully
Sirius laughed. "So you wanted to talk?"
"Yeah" She said and she sat down on the bench next to Sirius.
"What about?"
She bit her lip. "Umm, the other night"
~~~~
Hermione could see where this was going. She turned and looked at the older versions of Sirius and Aliandra. Sirius had sadness etched across his features while Ali's eyes sparkled with unshed tears.
~~~~
"Which bit, getting soaked, race up the tree, spying on Lily and James?"
"Well, the kiss"
"Oh. Yeah that's what James said it would be about."
"Yeah, umm" Aliandra's eyes looked everywhere except at Sirius.
~~~~
The two older versions were watching carefully. Harry swore that they could not be missing the slightest movement that their younger selves made.
~~~~
"Well what exactly do you want to know about it" Sirius asked carefully
"I, well, I don't know, you tell me, what should I know about it"
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"I don't know, what did it mean?"
The younger Sirius gave her an exasperated look. "Okay, well we're not getting very far are we"
"No,"
"Well do you just want to forget it ever happened" Sirius said
The younger Ali looked away. "Um, well, I dunno, is that what you want"
"I don't know!"
"Well there you go, we know one thing, we both don't know much" Ali concluded looking into the distance.
The younger Sirius looked at her strangely for a minute then laughed. "You have a point there my dear Watson"
"You really should stop reading those muggle books"
"How do you know I read muggle books"
"Because you've got James onto them."
"Did I really, he said it was a whole pile of shit, I'm going to have a nice little talk with him"
"Now I'm in trouble" Ali sighed
Sirius grinned, "don't worry I'll say a little birdie told me, and it has long golden hair and bright blue eyes"
"Thanks I really appreciate it" She said her voice dripping with sarcasm
"Anyway back to the topic of conversation, you do realize that this kiss could cause a lot of trouble for us?"
"Oh, why?"
"Well, were meant to be enemies"
"Yeah, well I mean, we've kinda dropped that a bit"
"Your the one who hasn't hit me back, I was expecting something really bad the next day after the whole invisible head thing, I was seriously scared all day that something was going to happen."
"I dunno, I think I'm running out of pranks, and you were the one that saved my life"
"Yeah well I don't want you dead, you can only get so much entertainment out of Snape"
"I dunno, you could get quite a bit"
"Actually I was going to ask you for the singing and dancing along table prank spell, charm whatever, I'd love to see him proclaim his love to Dumbledore. It'd be classic, I can almost see Dumbledore saying thank you as well"
Ali giggled softly "It was a few charms, they were tricky though"
"hmmm, right back to the topic" Sirius paused "Do you think there's a reason why were avoiding it?" Sirius asked moving closer to Ali.
The young Aliandra blushed. "Well, I,"
"Well?"
"Well probably"
He grinned, "So what did you have planned to say before you actually came out here?"
"What did you have planned to say" Ali said quickly dodging the question
"I asked first"
"Don't be immature"
"Lady's first"
"Since when have you been a gentleman"
"Okay, look I planned to do this" and he kissed her softly on the lips then moved away. "But I don't think it does any good for our status as enemies" a light blush crept across the blonde haired girls face as she stared silently into Sirius' chocolate eye's.
She shrugged "Oh well I'm out of pranks anyway" she muttered with a small smile on her face
Sirius looked at her strangely, "What?" he asked
"Just kiss me!" she exclaimed
For a second he looked shocked, then he grinned. "I ran out of pranks too" he whispered but before she could say anything there lips met, this time more passionately, her arms entwined around his neck and his arms encircled her waist.
* * *
Once again they were pulled back to their world. "I have to go" Aliandra said as soon as she hit the ground, grabbing her stuff she left before a word was said.
Sirius stared at where she had just walked out. "That was..." Sirius just shook his head as though he couldn't voice what he was thinking.
"Did we just make things worse between you two?" Ron asked biting his lip guiltily
"No, I don't believe so, but I think she might be hurting a bit in the next few days."
"Why exactly aren't you two happily together?" Hermione asked.
"Its not because of my parents deaths is it?" Harry asked.
"No, mainly because I caused her so much pain during those fifteen years afterwards."
"Well its not like you did that purposely" Harry said
"No, she knows that too, but Harry in that one day when Voldermort killed your parents, she lost her best friend, what she referred to as her brother and her husband, she's spent fifteen years hurting over that, she isn't going to run straight back into my arms." Sirius said, looking into the distance rather than catching anyones eye.
"Its sad, she loves you but she doesn't want to get hurt again" Hermione said dramatically
"Hermione, I'm not even sure if she loves me anymore" With that Sirius turned to leave.
"Sirius, before you go, why did you apologize for her nightmares?" Harry asked, that piece of information was really starting to bug him,
Sirius looked at the three of them for a minute. "That's a long story, one that I doubt will be recorded in that book, and one you don't need to know. Anyway you three should think about bed too, I believe you have a big quidditch game tomorrow Harry. Goodnight"
Hermione stared where he had left. "What did he mean by a long story?"
"Most likely a long story Hermione" Ron said
"That's not what I meant and you know it Ronald Weasley" Hermione glared
* * *
"I might go see her, I mean, yeah, maybe she can explain everything, or will explain everything that Sirius won't..." Hermione said as they walked into the common room.
Harry shrugged, "They both seem very secretive, although she is letting us read her diary.."
"Yeah from when she was fifteen" Ron commented,
"Yeah, but it still shows a level of trust, but then we don't know if she trusts us, or trusts that Lily would trust Harry" Hermione said carefully.
Ron and Harry shared a look, "Where does she get these ideas?" Ron asked,
"I have no idea, but it must come with being brilliant" Harry said and Hermione blushed slightly,
"Er- well anyway, are you ready for the game tomorrow?" Hermione asked Harry reluctantly, Quidditch wasn't her favorite topic of conversation, she just wanted to change the subject.
"Should be, I've just got a bad feeling about it, you know, like something's.... Never mind, I think I'm just getting jumpy" Harry said shaking of the feelings, "The teams ready, we should beat Slytherin easy"
"They are really ready, you should of seen them train Hermione!! I've never seen better players, not even in the national teams!" Ron exclaimed,
"Er- he's exaggerating a bit" Harry added sheepishly
"Whatever you reckon Harry, leave that for Hermione to decide," Ron exclaimed then turned back to Hermione, "It was amazing, they're all so fast, even the players on the slower brooms, but none of them could out play Harry,"
Harry raised an eyebrow and had to stifle a laugh, he shook in mirth at the words that were rolling out Ron's mouth, "Come on, its time for bed" Harry said still trying not to laugh.
The other two nodded,"Good luck for the morning then" Ron said to Hermione
"Yeah, Good luck"
