Chapter 2: Eyes of an eagle
Harry sighed. He'd gotten all his schoolbooks and other equipment he needed and in a matter of hours left until he'd be going back home, to Hogwarts. While gazing at the ceiling he heard a grunting sound from the left of him. It was Ron; he'd fallen asleep as soon as the got home. Still thinking about tomorrow he silently fell into a deep sleep. * * * *
* * * "Harry get up! Breakfast is ready" It was Ron shouting at him while trying to put on a jumper. "OK-OK I'm getting up, I'm getting up" It took him around 3 minutes to wash and get dressed. And while he was going downstairs he realised he hadn't put on his trousers. So in another 2 minutes he was finally downstairs practically sucking up his food because they were late.
It took them 20 minutes to get to Kings Cross on the Knight bus, and when they arrived they had quite a lot of time. They'd left the house half an hour early, which was a surprise because they normally end up getting there really late.
They said their good-bye's (even Fred and George were saying good-bye to them) and went on the train which they met Hermione. "Well, let's go find a carriage" Hermione suggested "No" Ron said "Let's just stay in the corridor" Harry said in a sarcastic tone. All the carriages were full except for one in the middle. Well if you say one person was sitting in it. "Anya?" Ginny asked "Ginny!" She stood up and hugged her "How've you been?" Her and Ginny sat down opposite each other and started to talk. "Erm, so I guess we're allowed to come in here?" Eventhough Ron had asked, they didn't answer, they just carried on talking. "Oh great I've got you two for company- wonderful" "You know you love us" Harry exclaimed while putting his trunk aside and Hedwigs bird cage beside him. He ended up sitting next to the mysterious girl by the name Anya.
As Hermione was about to say something Ginny butted in. "We're going to go and see everyone else be back in around Half and hour See ya!" They walked out, and as they were Harry looked at the girl and she was laughing. She had the most radiant smile. When she was about to pass him she saw Hedwig and bent down and stroked her and walked out. "And who is she?" Ron looked bemused. "Oh she's a very good friend of Ginny's. I've seen her loads of times she's quite nice really" As Hermione was answering; she was looking in her bag and ended up taking out a book. Harry wasn't paying attention to anything; he was still trying to remember her smile. "Harry?" Ron was poking him "Uh-oh" "What?" Hermione looked up from her book. "He's got the Cho Chang look" "Oh don't tell me he likes Anya?" "What?" Harry had realised they were talking so he turned his head and looked at them "Sorry?" "You like Anya don't you?" "Huh? No!!" He had sat straight up. "OK then Harry, we believe you" Hermione smiled "Fine, fine FINE!" Ron had found something extremely funny because his face was red and he was on the floor banging his fists. "I may like her but that's not a huge thing"
"Oh come on mate" Ron was wiping a tear from his face "You looked like a fish when she left with Ginny" He imitated the facial expression when Harry was daydreaming. "Why don't you try the option of making conversation then say he guess what I like you" "Urgh, Ron you don't have a single ounce of romance in your body do you?" Hermione had put away her magazine. "Well I don't think so" He chuckled a bit then stood up and got something from the trolley (well not something more like half the trolley but the amazing thing is it would keep re-filling as soon as you took something so you would never notice weather or not you took loads) "My mirror says I'm handsome and romantic" "You're an idiot" Hermione again out of boredom go out her magazine again. "I know, but you'd die for a piece of homework un-finished" He started to laugh at his own joke. Harry had also gotten up to get something to eat but by judging what he heard Hermione was yet again annoyed with Ron. "You're such a self-centred git" "Oh well" Ron made out with great effort while eating a chocolate frog. "Listen Harry don't jump into things again you do remember how much of an idiot Cho Chang was" Hermione was sitting in front of Harry now. "You bet I do.. Yeesh! What an annoying twit. her friend radded on us and she didn't even care! If I knew about Marietta I would have put a curse on her while we were in the D.A!" they all laughed. "I'm not going to say anything I don't even know if I like her that much for heavens sake" "Right and I'm an idiot" Ron said 'You are if you haven't realised what you just said"
It was a long boring ride really. Hermione sat in the corner reading her book, while Ron and Harry played exploding snap. "Hey want to go and see everyone like Dean? Or Seamus? Or Neville? I'm so bored!" Ron fell on the floor pretending to cry this loud un-realistic cry. At moment, Ginny and Anya had walked in, and saw Ron on the floor half crying and half laughing while Harry was throwing was crying of laughter for no reason what so ever. "What the hell are you two doing?" Ginny shouted. At the sound of Ginny's bellow they both stopped. "Letting the time pass" Harry said. "Why aren't you changed?" Anya asked while laughing at them and taking something from her trunk. "We want to be free!!" Ron shouted while jumping up. "We shall not be moved!" Harry shouted after him. "You two are free, and we're not going to make you move." Hermione was saying at the top of her voice. "So stop acting like idiots and put your robes on!"
They arrived at Hogsmeade train station in around 1 hour after that mad behaviour the boys put on. Hermione separated from them because of her Head Girl duties, so Harry, Ron, Ginny and Anya got into one carriage. When the got into the castle and were seated (Ginny and Anya far away from them which to Harry was a disappointment). "Cheer up mate, you'll see her in the common room" Ron said while nudging him with his elbow and winking. "Eh. shut-up" Harry said while laughing. After what seemed hundreds of hours of the sorting Ron and Harry, including everyone else, were stuffing themselves while talking loudly or laughing their head off. After the magnificent feast, Harry felt very sleepy so Ron did most of the talking. Dumbledore stood up and everyone went quiet. "It seems that you are all feed well and tired. So just a few reminders. I have never gotten bored of saying this, and yet it never sinks into everyone, the Forbidden forest is out of bounds to everyone" Ron and Harry smirked " And due to the dark times that have come to us past these 3 years. I am holding a ball so that all the houses can have a good time with each other. This will be a week on Friday. Oh and before everyone gets excited, I urge you all, try not to do much rule breaking. Now off to bed!" Everyone got up and went marching off to their dormitories and probably talking about the ball next week. "You're kidding me?" Ron said allowed "The last ball I went to was a disaster!" Harry exclaimed "Well we'll have to make this one memorable" Dean said while walking past them.
The next day went quite quick really. They went down to breakfast, and got given their timetables, and as usual it wasn't much of an eventful thing until Ginny sat next to them. "Where's Anya?" Harry asked at once eventhough he was trying to stop making it seem like he wanted to see her. "Oh, it's her mother's birthday so she's sending a present to her" Ginny answered while buttering her toast. "Zik nosay torsh gor sumtit?" Ron strangely managed to say while swallowing a humungous piece of bacon. "Oh honestly Ron can't you let us all eat in peace?" It was Hermione; she was sitting opposite him reading a huge book that looked tattered and dusty. "Nope" Ron gave her a lovely daring yet insane evil smile. He then turned to Ginny who looked as if she was going to be sick. "Is Anya short for something?" "Urgh. right. yes it is. um. Anastacia but she hates the name I think it's quite pretty really"
Their start to the day (as in lessons) was quite all right if you think sitting in a freezing dungeon with Professor Snape for two periods. After the dreadful start, the rest was quite all right but they didn't have Defence against the dark arts until Thursday and that was two days away.
Harry and Ron had met Hermione for a brief moment at dinner because after practically swallowing her dinner she was off. It kind of seemed she was up to something but what? After a lovely long dinner Ron and Harry went back to their dormitories and sat by the fire and started to play a game of "Bewitching fruits and banging them into each other and trying to see who's fruit bursts first"
They had gotten quite bored of getting all dirty so they stopped and tried to get through some homework for an hour so they wont die during the week. As two peaceful calm boys were at one side of the room by the fire, there were a group of six years over the other end laughing their head's off. "Why the hell are their so many people in the common room tonight!! Stupid bunch of good for nothing ass-" Harry's voice was getting louder by the second until Ron interrupted him. "For God sake Harry! Calm down mate! You've been whining for over an hour! I haven't been able to do much! If you want to go and talk to her just do it but stop shouting you pinhead!" Ron's ears had turned a shade of red, which had an un-familiar tone to it like his hair. "All right, all right I get it" Harry turned his head and he was looking over at the window, which a familiar 6th year girl was sitting right underneath it drawing something. It's quite strange how she looked so peaceful. The others had gone up and Ginny was doing homework on the floor by the fire. "Oh pur-lease Harry!! If you want to talk to her just go and leave me in peace" "I can't just walk up to her and say- Hi Hermione!" Harry looked at Hermione who had just walked through the portrait hole. "Well obviously you can't say- Oh Hi!" Ron said "Argh! That Geoffrey is a right idiot! Oh he thinks he can out wit a woman can he? What a self righteous goblin!" After saying her last word she slammed this extremely heavy book she had at breakfast down on the table and sat down. "Thinks a woman can't do anything does he?" She opened the book while mumbling other countless words. Both Harry and Ron were staring at her in puzzlement. "Woah" Ron said underneath his breath "Why on earth they made that sexist pig Heady boy is a mystery to me!" "What are you talking about?" Ron's voice was beginning to rise again "Harry and you wont shut-up will you please let me get on with this whit out killing myself!?!" "Oh SHUT-UP!" She stood up slammed the two ends of the book and walked off to the girls dormitory with it tucked underneath her. "GOOD-NIGHT!" and she slammed the door.
Harry sighed. He'd gotten all his schoolbooks and other equipment he needed and in a matter of hours left until he'd be going back home, to Hogwarts. While gazing at the ceiling he heard a grunting sound from the left of him. It was Ron; he'd fallen asleep as soon as the got home. Still thinking about tomorrow he silently fell into a deep sleep. * * * *
* * * "Harry get up! Breakfast is ready" It was Ron shouting at him while trying to put on a jumper. "OK-OK I'm getting up, I'm getting up" It took him around 3 minutes to wash and get dressed. And while he was going downstairs he realised he hadn't put on his trousers. So in another 2 minutes he was finally downstairs practically sucking up his food because they were late.
It took them 20 minutes to get to Kings Cross on the Knight bus, and when they arrived they had quite a lot of time. They'd left the house half an hour early, which was a surprise because they normally end up getting there really late.
They said their good-bye's (even Fred and George were saying good-bye to them) and went on the train which they met Hermione. "Well, let's go find a carriage" Hermione suggested "No" Ron said "Let's just stay in the corridor" Harry said in a sarcastic tone. All the carriages were full except for one in the middle. Well if you say one person was sitting in it. "Anya?" Ginny asked "Ginny!" She stood up and hugged her "How've you been?" Her and Ginny sat down opposite each other and started to talk. "Erm, so I guess we're allowed to come in here?" Eventhough Ron had asked, they didn't answer, they just carried on talking. "Oh great I've got you two for company- wonderful" "You know you love us" Harry exclaimed while putting his trunk aside and Hedwigs bird cage beside him. He ended up sitting next to the mysterious girl by the name Anya.
As Hermione was about to say something Ginny butted in. "We're going to go and see everyone else be back in around Half and hour See ya!" They walked out, and as they were Harry looked at the girl and she was laughing. She had the most radiant smile. When she was about to pass him she saw Hedwig and bent down and stroked her and walked out. "And who is she?" Ron looked bemused. "Oh she's a very good friend of Ginny's. I've seen her loads of times she's quite nice really" As Hermione was answering; she was looking in her bag and ended up taking out a book. Harry wasn't paying attention to anything; he was still trying to remember her smile. "Harry?" Ron was poking him "Uh-oh" "What?" Hermione looked up from her book. "He's got the Cho Chang look" "Oh don't tell me he likes Anya?" "What?" Harry had realised they were talking so he turned his head and looked at them "Sorry?" "You like Anya don't you?" "Huh? No!!" He had sat straight up. "OK then Harry, we believe you" Hermione smiled "Fine, fine FINE!" Ron had found something extremely funny because his face was red and he was on the floor banging his fists. "I may like her but that's not a huge thing"
"Oh come on mate" Ron was wiping a tear from his face "You looked like a fish when she left with Ginny" He imitated the facial expression when Harry was daydreaming. "Why don't you try the option of making conversation then say he guess what I like you" "Urgh, Ron you don't have a single ounce of romance in your body do you?" Hermione had put away her magazine. "Well I don't think so" He chuckled a bit then stood up and got something from the trolley (well not something more like half the trolley but the amazing thing is it would keep re-filling as soon as you took something so you would never notice weather or not you took loads) "My mirror says I'm handsome and romantic" "You're an idiot" Hermione again out of boredom go out her magazine again. "I know, but you'd die for a piece of homework un-finished" He started to laugh at his own joke. Harry had also gotten up to get something to eat but by judging what he heard Hermione was yet again annoyed with Ron. "You're such a self-centred git" "Oh well" Ron made out with great effort while eating a chocolate frog. "Listen Harry don't jump into things again you do remember how much of an idiot Cho Chang was" Hermione was sitting in front of Harry now. "You bet I do.. Yeesh! What an annoying twit. her friend radded on us and she didn't even care! If I knew about Marietta I would have put a curse on her while we were in the D.A!" they all laughed. "I'm not going to say anything I don't even know if I like her that much for heavens sake" "Right and I'm an idiot" Ron said 'You are if you haven't realised what you just said"
It was a long boring ride really. Hermione sat in the corner reading her book, while Ron and Harry played exploding snap. "Hey want to go and see everyone like Dean? Or Seamus? Or Neville? I'm so bored!" Ron fell on the floor pretending to cry this loud un-realistic cry. At moment, Ginny and Anya had walked in, and saw Ron on the floor half crying and half laughing while Harry was throwing was crying of laughter for no reason what so ever. "What the hell are you two doing?" Ginny shouted. At the sound of Ginny's bellow they both stopped. "Letting the time pass" Harry said. "Why aren't you changed?" Anya asked while laughing at them and taking something from her trunk. "We want to be free!!" Ron shouted while jumping up. "We shall not be moved!" Harry shouted after him. "You two are free, and we're not going to make you move." Hermione was saying at the top of her voice. "So stop acting like idiots and put your robes on!"
They arrived at Hogsmeade train station in around 1 hour after that mad behaviour the boys put on. Hermione separated from them because of her Head Girl duties, so Harry, Ron, Ginny and Anya got into one carriage. When the got into the castle and were seated (Ginny and Anya far away from them which to Harry was a disappointment). "Cheer up mate, you'll see her in the common room" Ron said while nudging him with his elbow and winking. "Eh. shut-up" Harry said while laughing. After what seemed hundreds of hours of the sorting Ron and Harry, including everyone else, were stuffing themselves while talking loudly or laughing their head off. After the magnificent feast, Harry felt very sleepy so Ron did most of the talking. Dumbledore stood up and everyone went quiet. "It seems that you are all feed well and tired. So just a few reminders. I have never gotten bored of saying this, and yet it never sinks into everyone, the Forbidden forest is out of bounds to everyone" Ron and Harry smirked " And due to the dark times that have come to us past these 3 years. I am holding a ball so that all the houses can have a good time with each other. This will be a week on Friday. Oh and before everyone gets excited, I urge you all, try not to do much rule breaking. Now off to bed!" Everyone got up and went marching off to their dormitories and probably talking about the ball next week. "You're kidding me?" Ron said allowed "The last ball I went to was a disaster!" Harry exclaimed "Well we'll have to make this one memorable" Dean said while walking past them.
The next day went quite quick really. They went down to breakfast, and got given their timetables, and as usual it wasn't much of an eventful thing until Ginny sat next to them. "Where's Anya?" Harry asked at once eventhough he was trying to stop making it seem like he wanted to see her. "Oh, it's her mother's birthday so she's sending a present to her" Ginny answered while buttering her toast. "Zik nosay torsh gor sumtit?" Ron strangely managed to say while swallowing a humungous piece of bacon. "Oh honestly Ron can't you let us all eat in peace?" It was Hermione; she was sitting opposite him reading a huge book that looked tattered and dusty. "Nope" Ron gave her a lovely daring yet insane evil smile. He then turned to Ginny who looked as if she was going to be sick. "Is Anya short for something?" "Urgh. right. yes it is. um. Anastacia but she hates the name I think it's quite pretty really"
Their start to the day (as in lessons) was quite all right if you think sitting in a freezing dungeon with Professor Snape for two periods. After the dreadful start, the rest was quite all right but they didn't have Defence against the dark arts until Thursday and that was two days away.
Harry and Ron had met Hermione for a brief moment at dinner because after practically swallowing her dinner she was off. It kind of seemed she was up to something but what? After a lovely long dinner Ron and Harry went back to their dormitories and sat by the fire and started to play a game of "Bewitching fruits and banging them into each other and trying to see who's fruit bursts first"
They had gotten quite bored of getting all dirty so they stopped and tried to get through some homework for an hour so they wont die during the week. As two peaceful calm boys were at one side of the room by the fire, there were a group of six years over the other end laughing their head's off. "Why the hell are their so many people in the common room tonight!! Stupid bunch of good for nothing ass-" Harry's voice was getting louder by the second until Ron interrupted him. "For God sake Harry! Calm down mate! You've been whining for over an hour! I haven't been able to do much! If you want to go and talk to her just do it but stop shouting you pinhead!" Ron's ears had turned a shade of red, which had an un-familiar tone to it like his hair. "All right, all right I get it" Harry turned his head and he was looking over at the window, which a familiar 6th year girl was sitting right underneath it drawing something. It's quite strange how she looked so peaceful. The others had gone up and Ginny was doing homework on the floor by the fire. "Oh pur-lease Harry!! If you want to talk to her just go and leave me in peace" "I can't just walk up to her and say- Hi Hermione!" Harry looked at Hermione who had just walked through the portrait hole. "Well obviously you can't say- Oh Hi!" Ron said "Argh! That Geoffrey is a right idiot! Oh he thinks he can out wit a woman can he? What a self righteous goblin!" After saying her last word she slammed this extremely heavy book she had at breakfast down on the table and sat down. "Thinks a woman can't do anything does he?" She opened the book while mumbling other countless words. Both Harry and Ron were staring at her in puzzlement. "Woah" Ron said underneath his breath "Why on earth they made that sexist pig Heady boy is a mystery to me!" "What are you talking about?" Ron's voice was beginning to rise again "Harry and you wont shut-up will you please let me get on with this whit out killing myself!?!" "Oh SHUT-UP!" She stood up slammed the two ends of the book and walked off to the girls dormitory with it tucked underneath her. "GOOD-NIGHT!" and she slammed the door.