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Chapter 2: The Letter

All throughout dinner, Harry kept thinking about the wink that he had received from the raven-haired girl.

'Why is this bothering me so much?' he asked himself as he scooped another spoonful of pudding into his mouth. All the time that he was in Hogwarts, he had always received looks and winks from girls, but this time it was different. He felt this strange attraction towards her, something he'd never felt before.

"Harry…..HARRY!"

"Huh? What?"

"You were staring!" Hermione informed him.

"Oh," Harry realized and turned quickly away from the girl who he still didn't know the name of.

"You don't know her name do you?" asked Hermione.

"Uhh…no," he admitted embarrassingly.

"You and Ron never listen to the Sorting Hat do you? Her name's Koral Meanir. Sounds French to me,"

Just then Dumbledore stood up and almost instantly the entire room went quiet He then made his usual beginning of the year speech, talking about newly banned items including the popular 'Tweezing Twitters' that pluck every last body hair on the victims' body. He also warned everyone to be on the alert for anything suspicious that may be involved with 'You Know Who'.

That night back in the Slytherin Common Room, Koral was sitting by the fire thinking about her recent encounter with Draco.

'Wow, lucky he's so thick that he didn't even notice me in this disguise. I mean how many people does he think has purple eyes?' Ugh..I ha….' Just then Draco walked up to her again and plopped himself in the chair opposite her.

"So, it's you again sweetie. What're you doing?" he asked with that smug smile he always seemed to have on his face.

"Oh, I'm just thinking about the upcoming year," she lied. She was actually thinking about how to get rid of him.

"Well I'll help you if you want. I mean…"

"Umm…I gotta go! It's getting late and I have classes tomorrow!" Koral said as she walked up to the Girl's Dormitory.

The next morning Harry, Ron and Hermione were eating breakfast when an owl arrived with Hermione's Daily Prophet.

"Oh my gosh!" Hermione shouted as she read the headline.

"'Hogwarts Teacher Attacked'! What? How is that possible?" Harry shouted.

"Professor Sprout? Why would anyone want to attack her? It says she was taken to St. Mungo's."

"No one can get into the castle without nobody knowing so You-Know-Who couldn't have done it," Hermione concluded.

"It's not like he hasn't done it before, remember Quirrell?" Harry reminded her.

"Oh, right. I forgot about that," she said.

"Should I go talk to Dumbledore about this?"

"He is currently out of the building, Mr. Potter," Professor McGonagall said from behind them.

"Where has he gone?" Harry demanded.

"That is none of your business, Mr. Potter. If you wish to talk to him, I will inform him when he gets back. Now you three better get to class," McGonagall said and walked away.

'And he seems to have noticed me yesterday at the Feast, so it can't be so hard afterall. And you said he was going to be hard to break, well you don't…' Koral was reading over her letter when suddenly someone bursts into the common room. She immediately stuffed the letter in her robe and acted normally.

"Hey, Koral. We're supposed to be in class soon. Are you lost or something? And what was that you were hiding?" asked James Ghost, one of her fellow classmates.

"Oh, that's nothing. And you're right, we should be heading to class," and with that she walked past him and out of the common room.

'That's weird, it looked like a letter, but why would she need to hide it?' James wondered as he too went to his first lesson of the year, Potions.

To be continued………………………………