Chapter 4

As Mindy and Harry walked down the hallways to Defense Against the Dark Arts they talked about quidditch. "When is the first game going to be?" Mindy asked Harry.

"In November."

"Geez, I'm gonna have to wait that long to see you play," she said in an exasperated voice.

"Yea, I can't wait till we play Slytherin, we've won for the past 3 years now, well it would have been 4 but the Triwizard Tournament was last year so we didn't have any quidditch."

"I remember the tournament, Fleur participated in it. Wait, you were the one that won the tournament."

Harry blushed, "Yea, but I mean Cedric should have won though."

"Yea, that was really sad what happened."

"Well, here we are."

"Thanks Harry."

"For what?"

"For showing me the way to class and everything, you've been really great." With that Mindy sat down next to Ron and Harry sat on Ron's other side.

"Please copy down the course aims that are on the board." Professor Umbridge said walking into the classroom. When she sat down at her desk she looked around the room and her eyes landed on Mindy. Mindy gave her a small smile, but Umbridge knew it wasn't a friendly one. "Now I would like you to read chapter 1 please."

Mindy dug out her book but didn't read anything instead she watched Umbridge watch the class. She just decided that she would read the chapter later. Umbridge got into an argument with the class about the course aims and Harry got sent to Professor McGonagall and then class was over.

They met up with Harry at the lunch table. He sat down next to Hermione and across from Mindy. "So what happened mate?" Ron asked.

"Got detention for a week, Angelina's going to kill me. We got practice on Friday."

"I could talk to you for her." Mindy said.

"What?" Harry asked.

"Well, she's my dad's secretary and I could get her to let you off on Friday, maybe even the whole week."

"No offense Mindy, but your dad kind of hates me. Well, and I don't think that she's going to let me off."

"Don't worry, I'll go talk to her right now." With that Mindy walked up to the staff table and came up to Umbridge. "Professor, do you think I could speak out to you in the hall for a moment?"

"Fine," with that they strode out of the great hall and into the entrance way.

"I need you to let Harry off of Friday detention."

"I will do no such thing."

"Yea, you will."

"No, I won't."

"Well then I'll just have to write to my father about this. He hate's it when I'm upset. See Harry and me had plans to go down to the quidditch pitch after his practice and I know father really wouldn't like me messing up my plans for a detention."

"Fine, fine but I won't let him off again, you hear me." It seemed Mindy didn't really hear that, or she just chose to ignore it."

"Also, Harry needs to be out on Wednesday too."

"Why is that?"

"For personal reasons."

"I really recommend that you don't hang out with the likes of him."

"Well it is up to me who I hang out with, so please I'll just let him know that he won't have detention on Wednesday and Friday. See you later Professor!" With that Mindy went strait back to the great hall and sat down next to Harry. "Well, I got you out of Wednesday and Friday detention," she told him.

"Really, great, thanks. We better get headed to divination Ron. We'll see you two in Transfiguration." (A/N I know it said she had divination but I changed my mind. Instead she has Arithmancy.)

"Yes, see you two later," Hermione called after them. "Well, let's get headed to class shall we." The classes passed almost in a blur. Next thing she knew it was dinner. Mindy sat right next to Harry and across from Hermione and Ron. After dinner they made their way up the marble staircase.

"Harry, remember you said you would show me to the Owlery."

"Oh, yea, we'll see you two back in the common room. I promised I'd show her the way when we were going to DADA." He said, noticing the looks of confusion on their faces. "Well, it's this way, see you two later." He called to their retreating backs.

"Really, thanks for everything Harry," she paused. "Listen Harry I want you to know right now that I'm really just here to help."

"What?"

"Well, see I know Voldemort is back. I know that Umbridge is going to make our lives as miserable as possible. I have actually a lot of control over her. See, she works for my dad. Now what she doesn't know is that my dad would probably take her word any day over mine. But she doesn't know that, so I just tell her that I'll tell my dad and she basically will do anything I say. So if you, Ron, and Hermione don't want to be friends with me that's fine."

"Mindy, we have no problem being friends with you, seriously. I don't know why you would think that."

"Well, you guys are all very close. I don't want to go breaking up the golden trio or anything. Plus I kind of grew up without many friends. I had probably 2 real friends. If I don't have any friends, it's not that big of a deal, seriously." Harry looked kind of stunned.

"I mean I want to be your guys friends it's just that if you don't want to be my friend I totally will understand."

"Yea, well I want to be your friend if that's okay with you?"

"I got no problem with it." Mindy smiled inwardly, she really didn't care if she had friends or not, but they were always nice to have around. Specially if you needed somebody to talk to.

Harry's POV

They had reached the Owlery and Mindy picked a school owl and tied the letter to it's leg. "So, who you sending the letter to anyway?"

"Oh, Draco."

"You mean Malfoy?"

"Yea."

"How do you know him?"

"Well he was my boyfriend this summer, but we're totally over now."

"I see." Harry didn't know what made him do it. Maybe it was the way the setting sun was right behind her and the light reflecting off her hair. The next thing he knew he had leaned down and kissed her on the lips. He was surprised when she wrapped her arms around his neck, and he slid his hands around her waist and pulled her closer.

"Potter! Get your hands off her!"

A/N Terribly sorry about the cliff hanger. Not really, but don't worry I'll have the next chapter posted soon enough. Please review, please! It would really make my day. Even if all you put is 'it sucks' I would be happy. Please, please review, I welcome flames.