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Chapter 22

"This food is awesome," Freddy managed between mouthfuls. "This stuff over here is pretty good, too!" He helped himself to his fourth serving of Yorkshire pudding while Summer rolled her eyes in disgust.

"Freddy, there is such a thing as eating too much," Summer said.

"Summer, let the guy eat whatever he wants," Zack replied. "It's not like we have some of this food back home."

"Whatever," Summer haughtily. "I'm going back to the dormitory where I can do my homework without being bothered." She threw an obvious glare at Hermione.The bushy haired girlopened her mouth to reply, but Summer had already walked off.

Hermione turned to Katie, who she was sitting beside. "That girl has a lot of nerve! I didn't even say anything to her!"

"It's probably not one of Summer's best days," Katie assured. She was just about to ask Hermione if she and Summer had actually gotten into a real conversation when she remembered the promise she made to Zack about not getting involved with Summer and Hermione's fight.

She looked over at Zack and smiled. Katie was confused why Zack didn't want her to get her two friends to get along. Then, all of a sudden, she became aware that they might hate her. Katie could just imagine Summer when she would try to convince her that Hermione had good qualities.

"So now you're on HER side!" Summer would yell. "I thought we were friends, Katie! Well go off and be with her then, for all I care!"

Katie realized that instant that Zack didn't want her to get hurt. Her heart melted. She loved having him as a best friend.

"Earth to Katie!" Seamus called, waving his hand in front of Katie's face.

Katie jumped. "What? Oh… sorry," she mumbled, flustered.

"Viktor Krum! We're meeting him now!" Ron said anxiously. "How could you forget?"

"Victor Krum? Oh boy! Shame on me!" Katieexlaimed jokingly. She giggled as she witnessed Ron's face turn to the color of a tomato. "I'm just kidding. You know I love you."

Ron grinned. "It's obvious girls can't resist me."

"I don't know what you're talking about Weasley," Malfoy's voice said distinctively behind the group, "Because you've obviously got yourself confused with me." Draco put his hand around Katie's waist. "You busy tonight, babe? I know a place where we can 'boom-boom' if you know what I mean."

Katie was annoyed. She was fed up with Malfoy's irritating tactics. As she brushed his hand off her waist, she said, "Listen, are you stupid or didn't you hear me the first time we met: I AM NOT INTERSTED IN YOU!"

"We can change that if we got to know each other," Draco said, trying to lure Katie into his mischievous smile that got girls to fall for him. He was surprised by the way she resisted.

Harry stepped up to Malfoy and the two were face to face. "Malfoy, is it me or has your hair color gone to your head? Katie said she wasn't interested!" He exclaimed angrily.

"You're always in the way, Potter," Malfoy spat. "You think you're being a hero, coming to 'save her' as you probably think. That girlreally does wantme, so she can just come with me right now. And don't think about getting in her way again."

"Hey, wait up blonde-boy!" Katie exclaimed. "I never said I wanted to come with you!I'm afraid that the bleach that makes you stupid will rub off of me.So why don't you march that little British ass up to your table," Katie finished coolly.

"The guygot burned..." Zack mumbled.

Draco's, along with the rest of the group's, mouth dropped open. He had never been dissed by a girl. He finally closed his mouth, but he had nothing to say. He muttered some thing Katie couldn't hear, and he stormed out of the Great Hall.

"Katie I never saw this side of you," Freddy finally said in a hushed voice. Everybody was in awe. They were so used to Katie being so nice and polite.

"I know!" Zack said with a grin. "It's usually Alicia who's a sassy little bi-"

Katie grinnedas Harrypunched Zack's shoulder before he could finish."Viktor Krum is probably waiting for us. Let's go!" Katie reminded.She led the way with Ron babbling excitedly at her side. When she saw that Hermione was very reluctant to go, she retreated.

"Hermione, aren't you going to come?" Katie asked.

"I don't want to come," Hermione said, trying to hide her disappointment. "But you go! Have a good time!"

"I'm not about to leave you behind," Katie insisted kindly. She saw that Hermione kept shifting her eyes. "What's up?" Katie still remembered what Lavender and Parvarti had told her about her and Viktor Krum's relationship, but she wanted to hear Hermione's side of it.

Hermione looked at Katie with trusting eyes. "Fine, I'll tell you." She sighed. "Well, me and Viktor… we were sort of going out. We actually got along great with each other! We had the most interesting conversations, now that I think about it. I thought the two of us, you know, had something going."

"That is so sweet!" Katie commented. "What happened?"

"His parents forbade him to see me," Hermione said sadly. "He had an arranged marriage coming up soon. I got really mad at him that he hadn't told me about it, so I stopped talking to him."

"So why don't you go see him now, Hermione?" Katie persisted. "Then you two can talk it out, and get back together again! It'll be awesome!"

"Well, it's not that simple… What about his soon-to-be bride?"

"If he really does like you, she won't even be an issue," Katie persuaded. "Come on! Please come!"

"Well…" Hermione said, starting to be convinced, but then she resisted. "No, Katie. I won't go," she said firmly. "I'm way too young to start worrying about love problems anyway. No, I won't go."

Katie looked Hermione in the eye and chuckled. "Hermione, 10 and 11 years old are way too young to start worrying about love problems. But you'll be 17 this year! And you said so yourself that you thought that you two had a thing going."

Hermione thought about it. "Fine, but only 15 minutes, then I'm going right back to the common room."

Katie rolled her eyes knowing that wasn't about to happen. "Fine, then let's go!" Katie grabbed Hermione's arm and dragged her to the Front Entrance.

The two found they're friends and Viktor Krum sitting on the staircase laughing. Viktor was actually the first one to see the girls.

"Katie! You made it!" He exclaimed. He was definitely happy to see her. Viktor smiled broadly when he saw Hermione. "And you 'ave brought Hermy-own-ninny!"

Hermione's face was flushed and she giggled nervously. "H-hi Viktor."

"We were all just talking about your flying lesson! 'Arry told me that you vere an excellent flyer."

Katie smiled at Harry and then at Viktor. "I just thought it was a lot of fun! I can't wait to do it again!"

"Flying is vun of my favorite pastimes."

"Harry! Why don't we take them to the Room of Requirement," Seamus suggested excitedly. Harry agreed and led the way.

"What's the Room of Requirement?" Katie asked Parvati.

"It's this really wonderful room that changes into whatever you need," Parvati explained. Viktor was listening in since he didn't know about it either.

"Like if you want a room with food, it will turn into a kitchen. Or if you want a room to study in, it will provide the books you need and probably a really comfy chair," Lavender added.

"What will the room look like when it's not being used?" Katie asked.

"That's the freaky part! It disappears!" Parvati replied.

"Sounds cool!" Katie commented. "So what…" She was interrupted by Argus Filch, the shaggy grey haired, old caretaker. His cat, Mrs. Norris accompanied him.

"Where do you all think you're going?" Mr. Filch asked with suspicion.

"We're showing our guests around the castle," Parvati replied innocently.

Katie saw that Mr. Filch's hair looked so unwashed that it was granular and greasy. She shivered, not wanting to know the feeling his hands would have felt every time he ran his hands through his hair.

Mr. Filch looked at his watch and scowled. "Just remember that you have a curfew. If I catch any of you," Mr. Filch pointed at each person, "out after curfew, I'll have you in for it." He smiled a mad, crazy smile and walked away. "Come, Mrs. Norris." The janitor walked away with his cat at his side.

Zack continued glaring at the janitor. "Whatta loser..."

Lavender rolled her eyes. "I hate him."

"Why is he so mean?" Katie asked.

"Because he's a Squib!" Parvati answered. She chuckled.

"What's a Squib?"

"It's a person who has at least one parent that attended a magic school and that person wasn't invited to come," Parvarti explained. "Since that person knows about the magical world, they can learn magic, even though they won't be too good at it."

"Kind of like me," Katie thought to herself.

Katie, Zack, Freddy, Hermione, Harry, Ron, Seamus, Viktor and then Neville, who caught up with the group, all walked excitedly to the Room of Requirement, all talking animatedly amongst each other.

The room was on the seventh floor; it was across from a vast tapestry of a man attempting to teach trolls how to do ballet. Katie stopped to look at it, wondering who the foolish man was.

"That's Barnabas the Barmy," Neville explained to Katie, reading her mind. "People say he was drunk when he was trying to teach trolls to dance."

"So this really did happen?" Katie asked

"Definitely! There's this one kid in Ravenclaw that claims that Barnabas the Barmy was his grandfather's great uncle." Neville studied Barnabas's crazy eyes.

"Doesn't look like much to be proud of though." Katie chuckled. They turned to their friends who were anxiously waiting to go into the room.

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