Wolf Boy and Ice Princess

Disclaimer: Alas me no owns Harry Potter. Me wished me owns but me doesn't…Oh well…

Note: As you may have noticed (if you didn't you'll notice it if you read this note) I've changed my summary for this story. It was brought to my attention it was not making the story justice so I changed to another I think fits better.

In an additional note the rating will change back to R-rated in the next chapter. It will no longer be safe to keep it as PG-13. You'll see why in the next chapter. For now I'll leave you with this one. Enjoy.

Chapter 11 – Discovery

During the following months Rosh could only sit and watch as Katherine and Jacob deepened their relationship. They were always together and the only times she talked to him was during classes and when there weren't Slytherins in them, which weren't many. But somehow he found this a good thing. He had stopped thinking about her constantly and now he went to the forest without wondering when she would appear. But that was when he was awake. During the night he dreamed about her all the time. He was yet to go through a night without dreaming about her. However he had found a way to think about other things as he got engaged in his project. A project he was intending to keep to himself until the right time.

When March arrived signs were posted on the common room's boards. The main one for the 7th years was one concerning meetings with their Head of House to discuss their decisions for their future. Rosh saw the sign and noticed that he and Katherine had to attend a meeting with Harry together and that meeting was 10 minutes away. His eyes widened and he quickly left the common room to go look for Katherine. It was a much difficult task because with the arrival of spring the two lovebirds had taken to go exchange saliva outside on the fields. He frantically searched the whole fields and finally found them by the lake. Panting slightly he approached them and cleared his throat. Jacob broke the kiss and looked at him.

"Can I help you, Lupin?" he asked smugly.

"I need to take Katherine from you." Rosh said calmly now.

"And why would you want that? We're busy here."

"I don't have time to waste with you." Rosh said to Jacob and turned to Katherine. "Professor Potter wants to talk to us."

"Somehow I doubt that." Jacob commented.

"Why?" Katherine asked ignoring Jacob's comment.

"It's important." Rosh answered.

"He's making stuff up to get you away from me." Jacob said to Katherine.

She looked at Rosh deep in his eyes. Then she got up and started making her way to the castle. Rosh looked down at Jacob and smirked.

"Are you coming?" she asked from behind Rosh.

"Going." He yelled back at her and smiled widely at Jacob.

The two cousins went to the castle and quickly walked to Harry's office.

"You better not be lying Rosh." Katherine said a minute before knocking on her godfather's office door.

After getting clearance to enter Harry told them to sit down. Katherine stole a glance at Rosh and took a seat followed closely by him.

"You guys are two minutes late." Harry commented.

"Sorry about that Harry. I had trouble finding Miss Black over here." Rosh explained and pointed to Kat with his head.

"Forgive me Mr. Lupin but I missed the sign." Katherine said looking at him.

"Yes, because you were busy with Mr. Dante…excuse me…Mr. Adams."

Katherine was about to say something to Rosh's comment but Harry spoke first.

"We already lost two minutes with your delay and now we are heading to five minutes of extra delay because of your discussion. Can we get down to business?"

"Sure. Sorry." Rosh said.

"Thank you. I'll start with you Rosh." Harry said while pulling out of a pile a rather thick folder. He skipped the thickest part of the file and started reading from a blue piece of paper. "It says here you wanted to follow Astronomy and perhaps become a teacher of the subject." He skipped a few more papers. "And I see here that you've been working hard for that. Your grade at Astronomy is brilliant. And your other grades aren't bad either. You are doing an excellent work Rosh."

"Thanks." Rosh said calmly.

"So what do you plan to do after you finish Hogwarts?" Harry asked and picked up a blank piece of parchment.

"Well I talked to Professor McGonagall once and told her about my wish to be an Astronomy teacher and she told me she could guarantee the place here at Hogwarts but she didn't expect the current teacher to ask for retirement anytime soon so I decided to go on a trip after I finish up."

"A trip?" Harry asked after he finished writing down what Rosh had said.

"Yeah. I plan on travelling for a couple of months to get in touch with other kinds of magic and explore Astronomy on the field."

"You what?" came the surprised voice of Katherine.

"Sorry?" Rosh asked turning his head to look at her.

"You plan on travelling and you didn't tell me anything?" she asked with a twinge of fury on her voice.

"Do you talk to me? Do you even care?" Rosh was matching her tone.

"Of course I care. So you were just going to take off and leave me without knowing where you went?"

"I thought you would be so busy with your boyfriend you wouldn't even notice I was gone."

"What is it that you have against Jacob anyway?"

"How about the fact that he's a conceited bastard and on top of that he's a Slytherin?"

"The label on Slytherins was placed during the time of Voldemort. And Jacob doesn't even remember Voldemort. He's a Slytherin because his father was one not because he's potential evil."

"You say that because he's your boyfriend and he's showing his good side. But I think otherwise."

"You're just jealous." Katherine said calmly.

Rosh narrowed his eyes and before he could talk Harry cleared his throat loudly.

"Are you guys done?" he asked.

Rosh crossed his arms and looked the other way. Harry took that as a yes and moved to pick another folder from the pile and this time it was a much thinner one. He skipped the thickest part of that one too and looked at the blue parchment.

"Very well, Katherine, I see here you don't want to do anything but if you had to chose you would chose Defence Against the Dark Arts as your main NEWT." He skipped the next papers. "Your grades are excellent at every subject and I don't think you'll have a problem with your NEWTs. And that goes for you too Rosh." he closed the folder. "So Kat, have you changed your mind since our last meeting about this?"

"No. I don't want to be a teacher because I'm not good at it and I don't want to work for the ministry because it's boring. It's too late for me to apply for a job at St Mungo's and banks are not my thing. Egypt is too hot for my taste and trolls are too stupid for me to waste my time with them. Dragons are too dangerous and journalism is a bunch of crap so I pass. That leaves…nothing. And that is what I want to do." She explained and smiled.

"That is an interesting perspective, but if that's how you see things. I should try to persuade you into following a career but I know my words will fall into deaf ears so I won't take both our times. Besides I have a meeting with a 5th year in…" he checked his watch "…one minute. So I guess that's it. You two won't have problems with your NEWTs and you seem to have a clear view of what you want your future to be. I just hope you can make the best of it. You are free to go." Harry finished.

Kat and Rosh got up and left the office. Outside was a 5th year they knew was called Roger. He smiled shyly at them and entered the office. Rosh stopped a few feet from the door and watched as Katherine continued to walk. He put his hands on his pant pockets and spoke loudly.

"I wasn't lying."

She stopped on her tracks and turned around.

"I don't want to talk to you." She said simply and moved on.

As her words sunk inside of him one thought crossed his mind. The light was from a train and not from the exit.

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If before Katherine hardly spoke to Rosh now she was giving him the silent treatment. Every time he tried to say something to her she would turn her face to the other side and ignored him. During the first week he just shrugged it off. After three weeks he was beginning to get upset and by the end of the second month he couldn't stand it anymore. In his mind he hadn't done anything wrong. He was planning on telling her about his trip but now she wouldn't even listen if he told her she had her shoe untied. The only thing he could do was spend more time on his project and work hard to keep his grades up. And he started talking more to Jade. Sometimes she told him something about Katherine and he would get lost in thought remembering something they had done that was related to what she had said. Maybe it was a bit pathetic but he missed her and only the disappearance of Jacob would change things. He didn't like Jacob much but what he heard once made him hate him even more.

It was the night before a full moon on May and Rosh went down to his mother's office to get the Wolfsbane. As he was passing the Potion's classroom he heard voices and being the curious wolf he was he decided to go investigate. He pressed his ear against the classroom doom and listened.

"Are you in or out?" a voice asked. Rosh couldn't recognize it.

"I already said I was in." that voice he recognized easily. It was Jacob.

"Very good. So it's 6 galleons?" the first voice asked again.

"Make it 10." Jacob said with confidence.

"Someone is confident. John, put it down as 10 galleons that by the End of the Year Ball Jacob will have slept with Katherine."

Rosh backed away from the door in shock. He forgot entirely about the potion and ran back to the Gryffindor Tower. He had to talk to someone. But who would listen to him? Katherine would never believe him but Jade might. Luckily she was still up when he reached the Tower.

"Thank Merlin you're up." He said to her panting slightly.

"Why?" she asked looking up from her book.

"I just found out something really, really bad."

He sat beside her and started telling her what he had heard.

"No way." She said after he was done.

"That's what I heard."

"Katherine will never believe that. She thinks the guy is a saint."

"I know. If I tell her that she'll think I'm making it up because I'm jealous. I mean sure I'm jealous but I never lied to her before."

"Maybe you can use that. She trusts you with her life. If you prove to her you could never lie to her then you can tell her this."

"You may be right. I just need to find a way. But she's not talking to me. She ignores me all the time."

"Win her back. I know you can do it."

Rosh looked at Jade and smiled. But how was he going to win her back? He had to think of something and discover a way fast. The End of the Year Ball was two months away.

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To my faithful reviewers:

Aria-Wolfstar: I'm glad you like my story. And I love Inuyasha…too bad I can't see the TV show as I would like to (our TV doesn't show it, I had to download some episodes). Anyway I just love it and it's nice to hear that u like it too. Kudos to you

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And now to my new reviewer:

moonyspadfoot: Thank you for your review. It was unexpected because I became used to only receiving three per chapter but it was welcome nonetheless. I have to first say that I'm flattered that you think I have the potential and makings of a good author, it means a lot to me. Secondly I appreciated that you gave your opinion about this story. I've come to realize I take too long introducing the plot. The events of the first 10 chapters lead to what will happen in the future, which is how I see that a story should work, events leading to the climax. Anyways I think a good writer is the kind that learns from mistakes and maybe with your help and with the help of my other reviewers I can improve my work. This story is nearly finished and changing it now would be too much trouble not mean waste of ideas. Never the less I will take your review into consideration to my future work as I thrive to improve as much as possible. Thank you for you time and regardless of what you though I'm glad you at least took the time to read, even if it was only the first five chapters as you mentioned.

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