-1Chapter 3

"So you know what to do yeah?" Harry asked.

"Yes Harry, we are casually going to go up to Amanda, talk to her then drag her to that secret room." Hermione replied.

"Good. Right, I'm going to go there now. I'll give u about 15 minutes to do this and-".

"15 minutes!" Ron cut in, "There's no way we can do this in 15 minutes.".

"Well, it's either that or we let her marry Draco!" Harry said.

"Marry?" Hermione giggled.

"Okay, maybe not marry but you know what I mean.". As Hermione rolled her eyes Harry walked away to the secret room and both Ron and Hermione walked to Potions class.

"Where's Harry?" Amanda asked.

"Err... He just went to the bathroom." Hermione answered with a worried look on her face.

"Right... OK." Amanda said. As she was about to walk into the class Hermione shouted "So you didn't exactly tell us about your holidays. How were they?".

Amanda stopped suddenly and with a panic look on her face she turned round and replied "Umm they were OK I guess, nothing interesting happened. You know just staying with Hagrid and... Things." she said quietly. At that point Hermione understood what Harry had been on about, Amanda had been acting odd since they came back.

With this Hermione turned to Ron to give him the signal to grab her but noticed he wasn't in this world, he was staring at Amanda again and drooling a bit.

"Ron!" Hermione said elbowing his stomach.

"Wha-oh! What?", Ron saw that Amanda was walking to the classroom and shouted "Amanda!". She turned again and said "Oh, so you are here Ron.".

Ron, with a red face, said "Err yeah... Always have been.".

"Right." Amanda said confused, "Anyway, what do you want? Not to be rude or anything but I do have to go to class." Amanda said with a little giggle.

"Oh yeah right. Umm, so, how are you today?".

"I'm fine thank you, how about you?" Amanda said with a funny look.

"I'm fine. You know the weather has been really nice lately, don't you think?" Ron asked with a smile.

Amanda looked outside and saw it was dark and raining very hard, "Yeah, great weather to sunbath! OK you two, what's wrong? Why are you talking utter rubbish?". Hermione and Ron looked at each, then suddenly Hermione shouted "NOW!" and they both grabbed her.

While that was happening Harry was still making his way down to the 'secret' room, he was going over and over his head what he was going to say and what he was going to do about Amanda. 'Right I'll say that.' Harry thought, 'And that as well. God I hope this works!'. At this point Harry was very worried. He didn't know how Amanda was going to react, probably badly, but he knew Amanda very well. They've been like brother and sister for the past 5 and a quarter years! So why was he worried now?

Harry turned into a little hall way and knocked three times on a door, the door opened and there it was, the 'secret' room. It was very beautiful and smelt fantastic, it was one of those rooms that were magical and only he, Amanda, Ron and Hermione knew about it. Colours of all the Houses were in it and for once Harry liked the Slytherin colours, the sliver and green went really well with the gold and red of the Gryffindor House, all colours were twisted together to make it bright and shining. The room was big and had all sorts of furniture in it, bean bags as chairs, a big wooden table, a long sofa that was bigger than the four House Common Rooms put together and it was comfortable so most the time Harry slept on it. There were wild flowers, purple, bright pink and orange, a rose or two, and as soon as you walked in it it smelt as sweet and delicious as a bakery.

Harry sat down on the sofa and waited for about 5 minutes before he heard a knock on the door, he knew it took him about 10 to get there because he was walking so slow, mostly because he was panicking.

Hermione and Ron came in with Amanda struggling to get out of their grip; it was hard since they were both using magic to do it. They threw Amanda onto the sofa next to Harry.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?" she shouted.

"We're only doing this for you own good" Hermione said.

"My own good?!? There's nothing wrong with my own good!".

"There is!" Harry said, "You've been acting strangely lately and staring at Draco and we...", Hermione interrupted with a cough. "I mean I want to know what's wrong with you so tell me!", Harry gasped as he ran out of breath.

"There's nothing wrong!".

"Then why won't you tell us about your summer holiday?" Ron asked, Amanda looked at him, panic on her face. She looked round to all of them, they all new it must be bad, "I can't tell you." she said finally.

"Why not?" asked Harry.

"It's complicated." she replied.

"Do you know who you're talking to?" Hermione pointed out, Amanda gave a little laugh.

"Amanda, I tell you everything right?" Harry asked, Amanda nodded, "And you help me right?".

"Well I hope I do.".

"You do, honestly. Look, I know there's something wrong. I know something's happened, what I don't know is why you won't tell me." Harry put his hand on Amanda's chin and turned her head round, "All I want to do is help you the way you've helped me, I can't help you if you won't let me.".

"Promise me you won't do anything?" Amanda said.

"I promise, do you two promise?" Harry asked to Ron and Hermione.

"I do." Hermione said, she looked at Ron.

"Yeah, I promise" he said.

"OK then, I'll tell you.".