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Authors Note: Second chapter…enjoy.

The Way You Make Me Feel

Chapter 2 - The Minister's Big Mistake

I sat up and looked around. It was Ginny and she chucked me my robes and left. I quickly got changed. I rushed down to the Great Hall and sat down with Dan and Gin.

"Where's Luke?" I asked as I pulled some bacon towards me.

"Still asleep. I think he is getting sick. At least that's what Ron said." Ginny explained and we watched as McGonagall walked briskly around, handing out timetables. I looked down at mine.

Langley, Neveah

Gryffindor House, McGonagall

History of Magic – Binns

Potions – Snape (double with Slytherin)

Care of Magical Creatures – Hagrid (with Slytherin)

Lunch

Divination - Firenze

Herbology – Sprout (with Hufflepuff)

"Seems a good afternoon for Herbology." I said as we stood up and headed for History of Magic.

"Yeah. Quite a boring morning though. Binns and Snape. We'll have heaps of fun." Dan said sarcastically. We heard our names called behind us and Luke came sprinting towards us.

"Where've you been?" We asked in unison.

"I slept in and then I had to go see Dumbledore for something." He said quietly as we walked in and sat down.

"Why did you need to see him?" We asked together again.

"He told me not to tell anyone…sorry." He added hastily, seeing our confused look. We had a boring session with Binns (surprise surprise) and we learnt about the Goblin Confederation Against Vampires in 1444. Binns' words bounced off us like ping-pong balls.

"I hope you are all paying attention to this as there will be an assessment and homework on it," Everyone let out a drowsy moan and starting writing down things on spare parchment, "and so Helveca the Horrible was leading…"

"I'm pretty sure I fell asleep in there." Dan exclaimed, 30 minutes later, outside the dungeons. For once the Slytherin's weren't making smart remarks about Ginny's hair, my body, Dan's face or Luke's sissiness, which seemed quite remarkable. Though they were huddled into a tight circle and they kept glancing at Ginny and I.

"They're up to something." Luke said suspiciously, looking over me and at Godfrey Singleton and Clamentius Cook who had two sisters at Hogwarts, both in Ravenclaw, Cleo Cook and Danika Cook.

"What do you want, sissy?" Cook asked, menace so clear you could almost see it.

"Just seeing if that face of yours had changed but I guess my dream'll never come true." Luke said coolly and I chuckled to myself.

"What's your dream?" Singleton asked and Cook clipped him on the back of his head. Singleton isn't that bright.

"Well, I would have left that for you to figure out yourself but…your brain might be too overloaded. What with all the homework, Quidditch and then there's that girl…what's her name…Penny?" Luke asked toyingly and Singleton gave a malicious look at Luke, "Yeah that's right, Penny Liddell. Anyway, my dream is that Cook's face will finally disappear and –"

"Silence!" Came Snape's voice from the door. Luke closed his mouth and we all turned towards the door.

"Enter. And get out your cauldron and ingredients off the board. There will be no talking." He sat down and we started our potions. After an hour and a half of potion making, Clamentius looked over at me and pulled up the Daily Prophet. There was a picture of the Minister for Magic on the front underneath a broad heading, 'Minister's Big Mistake'. I knew straight away that I had to read it. I scribbled on a piece of parchment, 'Can I borrow it? I will give you three Knuts and a Sickle?' I asked Dan to pass the note along to Clamentius and he mouthed 'OK' to me. Wow, I had actually made a civilised conversation with a Slytherin. He passed the newspaper back along just as the bell went and I saw him ask Godfrey who Penny is. I walked over to him once the others had left.

"Wanna walk with me to Care of Magical Creatures?" I asked, I was amazed at my daring and I slapped myself mentally.

"Why would I want to walk with you? No, Langley, go and walk with your friends…you know, the mud-blood and them." He nodded to the door and I left miserably.

"Hey, what took you so long?" Ginny asked curiously as we walked down the steps to Hagrids Hut.

"Oh, nothing." I lied. I didn't want them to know that I had feelings for someone in Slytherin. It was hard to resist. You just had to look at them and you drool. Take Malfoy for instance, sleek blonde hair that falls around his face, hot abs and a great voice. Or Zabini, he has great brown hair that he tousles up, a nice manly body and those eyes…blue. And then there's Clamentius. He has soft, hazel eyes that bring out his skin and his black hair is a whole other thing.

"Nev…Nev!" Ginny was yelling at me.

"What? Oh, sorry. Hi Professor!" I greeted happily. Hagrid looked at me and smiled. I wonder what we're learning about today.

"I' go' a real trea' fer yeh today." He said happily. Uh oh. That can never be good. I looked at Singleton and he still looked angry at what Luke had said about Penny.

"Yeh migh'a studied these b'fore bu' today we'll have a good look at 'em." I perked up a bit at that point and we followed Hagrid to the edge of the forest where there was about four unicorns, looking proud and beautiful.

"Now, there's two babies fer the boys' ter pat an' these two are fer the girls." We departed from Luke and started patting a beautiful female that Hagrid had named Cecelia. And just before the bell went he asked us for a two-page essay on how to tell the difference between a male, female and babies.

"That was awesome!" I exclaimed while we fought through the crowd, towards the Great Hall for lunch. My stomach was gurgling and I was literally threatening to eat a Hippogriff. We sat down and I started chomping down on some lamb sandwiches. Potter joined us looking happy, which is not common with people like him.

"Read the Prophet yet?" He asked, pointing at the newspaper in my hand. I completely forgot. I tapped Gin's shoulder and pointed at it. We started reading.

Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, made a big mistake yesterday in court whilst facing former Ministry worker, Lucius Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange. The two were sent to court for breaking into the Ministry, using the Unforgivable Curses and being Death Eaters. Fudge sentenced them to 40 years in prison. A sentence that made the Wizengamot extremely angry as they felt Cornelius was too soft and they deserved harsher punishment such as life or immediate death.

"Outrageous, that is," Jemima Hunter said outside the court. The Wizengamot seem to be disliking Fudge at his old age of 60 and that he should move on to be with his wife and children.

"We need a new Minister…one like Dumbledore perhaps. Not saying that it should be him but one with the brains like Dumbledore and the calmness of Dumbledore." Fudge seemed outraged at this point and refused any more details about whether he was going to resign or not but he left in a hurry and said he had 'family commitments'. A bunch of baloney in my opinion.

I put the paper down, feeling that Christmas had come early.

"So, you think Fudge'll get kicked out?" Ginny asked as Ron and Hermione joined us.

"There's a fair chance he will." Potter replied, feeling smug and satisfied at Draco's face, which was filled with utter hatred towards Fudge for even sending his Father to prison.

"Wouldn't it be awesome if Dumbledore got to have the position. There might be another trial thingy towards who goes and who comes in to fill." Ron said as the bell went and I made my way to Divination with Dan. Ginny and Luke learnt Muggle Studies rather than Divination because they were purebloods and they wanted to see the Wizarding view of Muggles. We didn't have to walk far as Firenze likes the ground floor.

"I heard that today we'd be learning about the History of Seers." Came Amanda Humphrey-Rush's voice, rounding the corner and spotting me. She doesn't like me very much because apparently I ditched her in my third year for Dan. But she ditched me for a guy. What kind of friend does that?

"Course you would love that wouldn't you, 'Manda?" Came a second voice, a guys' voice. Surprisingly she was still with the guy she ditched me for. Dominic England. They were deep in conversation until Dom saw me and he flushed pink then was quiet, which brought suspicion into Amanda's voice.

"What's wrong, Dom? Saw Nev, huh? Don't worry, she's gone from my past just as much as Anna's gone from your past." Amanda smiled a malicious smile and looked from me, to Anna Macgillavray then back to Dom.

"They aren't gone from my past, 'Manda. They are still alive and I can't go ignoring them. Anna may have been my ex but I dumped her and I'm not a jerk." He laughed cruelly and I looked at Anna and her eyes were full of tears. The door opened and we walked into the green surrounding of trees and the slight spots of grey from the boulders.

"Good afternoon," Firenze said mistily as he sat down, "today we will be continuing with the Plants."

Anna was sitting by herself and I told Dan that we should sit with her.

"No. I don't like her too much." She said and I scowled.

"Well, I'm going to sit with her anyway. Join us if you want." I said and I crawled over the moist grass to her. She was sniffing and had tears down her face.

"It's OK. He is a jerk. Don't worry about him. He can be a jerk if he wants." I said comfortingly and she smiled at me with her pearly whites.

"Thanks. Do you mind if I hang out with you at lunch?" She asked and I nodded. Uh oh. Dan doesn't like her and I had said yes.

"Thank—" We looked up as the door opened. It was Dennis Creevey.

"Professor Dumbledore wishes to see Neveah Langley and Dannielle Mason." He said and I saw he looked slightly frightened of Firenze.

"OK, go." He said, nodding at us and we left.

Authors Note: Sorry, I know its sort of a cliffie but the next chap will be up soon.