Chapter 4: Saturday

Asia awoke at her usual Saturday time, just when the sun was beginning to peak over the horizon. She got up, and by the time she showered, brushed her teeth, and dressed, a little more light was in the room. She then sat down at her beside table, and started to work all of the snarls out of her hair. She did all of this without waking any of the other girls. Asia was so used to sharing a room with Raven. Who was an extremely light sleeper, literally? She would float 2 feet of the bed when she's asleep, and she hates to be disturbed.

Asia put on a pair of snug blue jeans, and a regular black shirt that was also snug. Over that, she had on her school robes since it was rather cold. She left the tower with Angel at her heels and headed off towards the east part of the castle. Asia was rather surprised that all the studying she did of the floor map of Hogwarts during the summer paid off. She didn't feel insecure about any corner that she turned. She stopped when she came across a door that was ajar. It had sunlight flooding from the cracks and was gentle breeze. Asia walked in. the room looked dark, and rather deserted. Asia walked over to the large sill and sat. As the sun peaked half way over the horizon, she closed her eyes, letting the light wash over her, and recited:

The sun is your light

To led me

The wind is your arms

To guide me

The rain is your tears

To cleanse me

The clouds are your messengers

To warn me

Watch over me

Love me

Bless me

Smile at me

At us

Until we untie

I will make you proud

The Lily will rise

As strong as ever

When Asia finished, she looked up. Angel looked at her curiously.

"Care to go for a walk on the grounds afterwards?" she asked the Houndune. Angel nodded in response and laid her head on Asia's lap to watch the rest of the sunrise.

Once the sun was well in the sky, Asia and Angel traveled back to Gryffindor tower. She sat in the common room, and waited. Most of the Gryffindor's had already left for breakfast, and Asia was rather hungry also. At around 7:30, Harry, Ron, and Hermione came downstairs.

"There you are!" Hermione exclaimed, and let out a relived sigh.

"Err, yea, here I am" Asia said uncertainly. But Hermione didn't hear her. She had turned and started to yell at Harry about something. "Um, what's going on?"

"We came down here thinking you and Hermione left already, and she told us that you weren't there. Harry freaked out." Ron explained

"Well, I'm here now, so can we go?"

"Good idea." Harry said

The 3 of them left for the great hall. Ron and Hermione went to the other side of the table to find a place to sit since it was very unlikely that the 4 of them could sit next to each other. When Asia and Harry walked in side by side, the hall almost went silent. Harry could sense how uneasy Asia was getting because of it.

"Don't worry, it happens every time someone new comes." he told her reassuringly. The truth was, unless it was a staff member, no one new came to Hogwarts. Asia only nodded, and continued to walk. As Harry fell behind slightly to sit on Asia's right, he noticed that most of the attention Asia was getting, was from the boys.

Dumbledore watched form the staff table as the 2 siblings walked in to the great hall. They looked like Lily and James, except Asia's hair was jet black. She looked like both of them; she had Lily's figure and structure, but James's eyes and hair color. Dumbledore couldn't help but smile either, when he saw Harry notice all the attention Asia was getting from the males in the hall. This year was going to be interesting.

As Asia walked, she to noticed that she was getting a lot of attention, but decided to ignore it. But she couldn't help but to look back at one boy. He was sitting at the table to the left of Gryffindor, at the Ravenclaw table. His short hair was dark brown, and his eyes were a cool misty gray. His face was very friendly, and his figure was slim. She took her eyes off of his when she and Harry sat down. As she filled her plate, she felt Angel brush up against her leg. So Asia got plate and filled it with sausages, beacon, eggs, ham, and fruit, and put it under the table.

"Can she eat all of that?" Hermione asked

"Sure. Or else she'll just end up hunting something anyway." Asia replied as she took a sip of orange juice.

After the plates were cleared 45 minuets later, Harry and Ron were in a game of wizard's chess. Hermione was writing a letter to her parents, and Angel was dozing. Asia announced that she was going for a walk, and Hermione asked if she wanted company. The 2 girls left the half empty hall. Before Asia reached the doors, she turned back and looked at Dumbledore, who was smiling at her. She smiled back politely and kept walking.

"Let's go see Hagrid." Hermione suggested. Asia nodded in agreement and walked along with Hermione.

Hermione knocked on the large door of the cabin of the gamekeeper/CoMC teacher, and waited. Loud barking emitted from the cabin, and Angel began to growl fiercely.

"Back Fang, go on, get back!!" came a rumbling voice. The door opened to reveal Hagrid. Hermione and Asia walked in, and Fang, like usual, slobbered all over them. Angel however, didn't take so easily to the licking. She only bared her teeth once and Fang went over to a corner.

"Be nice" Asia said with only a slight sternness. Angel went over to Hagrid, and began licking him like she knew him all her life.

"Blimey! That is you! How are ya'?" Hagrid spoke to the Houndune as if expecting her to answer back.

"You know Angel Hagrid?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Know 'err, I was there when she was born! And Asia firs' got 'err!" Hagrid stopped. He looked at the girl Angel was now sitting next to. "Asia?"

"Hi Hagrid." Asia said in a small voice. It's been almost 6 years since she's seen Hagrid. Hagrid walked over to her and pulled her into a bone-crushing hug.

Hermione and Asia stayed for a bit. Hermione made sure that Asia avoided Hagrid's fudge, and any other kind of cooking. They left a little while later, trekking back up the grounds to the castle to find Harry and Ron. Hermione was telling Asia about Hogwarts exams when a voice drawled behind them

"Granger, I think your boring her." it was Malfoy. He was talking in a semi-polite tone. Most likely to impress Asia Hermione thought.

"Actually, she's a not thanks." Asia said. Her tone was polite, but it had just enough edge to let Malfoy know that she was serious.

"You must be the new girl," Malfoy said "I'm Malfoy, Draco Malfoy"

"Asia potter" Asia said with a polite head bow "your Lucius Malfoy's son, correct?"

"That's me." Malfoy said proudly. Hermione rolled her eyes. "Hey, why don't I save you from Granger and we can take a walk?"

"No thanks. I have to go meet someone. But I'll see you around, ok?"

"Sure. See you around." as Asia walked away, Malfoy stared after her. He snapped out of it when Angel snapped at him from behind him.

"Angel!" Asia called. Angel stopped her growling and slinked off after Asia.

As they went up the marble staircase, Hermione said "do you like him?"

"Me? No, I don't even know him."

"And you don't want to. He's nothing but bad news. He's hated Harry ever since the first day"

"For what?"

"Because he refused to be his friend, and embarrassed him in front of everyone."

"Oh. I don't know, he didn't really seem too bad. I can't blame him for what he's done in the past, but I do know his family's reputation so I'm going to keep an eye on him."

"Good. But I still can't believe that he was just hitting on you!"

"Um, I don't think he was...he just told me his name-"

"Who?" Harry said. He had just come out of the boy's bathroom with Ron when he heard them.

"Malfoy. He was actually hitting on Asia just a second ago-" Harry cut Hermione off

"What!?!" Harry yelled, making Angel jump.

"Calm down. I don't even know him!" Asia defended. Why was everyone making such a big deal?

"He's a bad egg, that one." Ron added. Asia sighed. Was there ever any peace around here?

The 3 got back to Gryffindor common room a little after 11. Asia went up to her dormitory while the others stayed in the common room. Asia gazed out the window. The sky was clear and blue...it was so wonderful! As she looked a little more out the window to the side, and saw the Quidditch pitch. She smiled as it brought back memories of the E.Y.A. She was on the team back then. She wasn't really sure if she liked Quidditch. She just loved to fly!! It felt like all of her worries were left on the ground. She played chaser on her team. In the E.Y.A, there were numerous teams. Any 7 people that wanted to play played. But then it sort of got out of hand when there were about 40 teams, so it had gotten limited to 5 teams at the maximum. Then, they just started to have tryouts. About 60 people tried out, but only 35 actually made the team. Asia was one of them. Maybe she should think about trying out? Harry and Ron were constantly talking about how much they needed a new chaser since one of them had graduated. Maybe...

Asia figured that she'd send a letter to Raven, since she hadn't yet. She went into her bedside table cabinet, pulled out some ink, parchment, and a quill, and started to write:

Hey Raven!

How are things? I hope that you're well.

I've been trying to continue my regular routine, but Hogwarts is different than there. I finally met Harry. He's great. Prue was right; he does look like my dad. He's really funny, and he loves Quidditch. He's on his house team as seeker. He has 2 best friends, Ron, and Hermione. They're really great. Hermione wicked smart, and Ron's wicked funny. I know that I kind of stuffed everything into this one little letter, but I didn't want to write an essay to describe everything. Hopefully I'll be able to see you again, maybe during Christmas break? I'll just have everyone come to the manor and you can meet them?

-Asia

PS- Angel says hello!

Asia folded up the letter and tied the string around it, and then took out her wand and sealed it. She got up and went down to the common room.

"Hey, there you are." Said Hermione "I was just coming to get you. Harry and Ron are going to Quidditch practice, since Ravenclaw is done on the field. Do you want to watch?"

"Sure. But I've got to send a letter first. I'll meet you down there, okay?"

"Sure". And Hermione Ron, and Harry left. Asia went towards the Owlery, and found Storm, and sent him off. As she walked back down to the entrance hall, she wasn't paying attention when se bumped into someone.

"Ow! Oh, I'm sorry. I can be clumsy sometimes." Asia apologized.

"No, it was my fault…wasn't paying attention…" the boy trailed off as he looked at her face. It was the boy Asia had seen when she first came!! She immediately felt a little nauseous.

"You're the new girl, right?" the boy asked

"erm, yeah. Oh, sorry, how rude of me. I'm Asia, Asia potter."

"Jeffery stone."

Jeff's POV

Wow…why am I feeling like this? Do I like her? I can't! I have a girlfriend! There's no way! But…her eyes…so blue…she's so angelic. Wait! No! I have to stop!

End POV

Asia's POV

Ok…that's the guy I saw in the great hall. He's so cute! What am I talking about? I don't even know him! But that could change…okay, why are we not talking? Should I just walk away? No! That would be rude.

End POV

"Your Harry's little sister, right?"

"Yeah."

"Must be nice to have him as a brother."

"Yeah…so, um, you play Quidditch?"that was stupid; he's only wearing the house robes!

"Yeah. You follow Quidditch?"

"Yes, I used to play." great, now I sound like I'm bragging!

"I hear Gryffindor is looking for a new chaser, and they haven't found one yet. You should try out."

"Yeah, maybe I will." Asia glanced out the nearby window. The sun was indicating that it was at least 11:30. "Well, I've got to go. I promised Harry I would watch the practice, and I've got to go send a letter. So I'll see you around."

"Sure. Nice meeting you."

"Yeah, you too." With a wave, Jeff left. Asia went back up to Gryffindor tower, and wrote another letter:

Hey guys, how are you?

Okay, it doesn't really matter who opens this letter. Can one of you do me a big favor, and send my nimbus 2001? I'm trying out for Quidditch since they need a chaser

Thanks. Love ya! –Asia

PS- I had to use a school owl because I just sent Storm off with a letter to Raven!

Asia dashed up to the Owlery and picked a large barn owl to send the letter to the Halliwell's. She went back down to the entrance hall, and to the Quidditch field.

"Asia, up here!" yelled Hermione from the stands. Asia met up with her. "What took you?"

"I meet up with someone in the hall, and then I had to go write another letter."

"Did you meet up with Draco?"

"Who? Oh, no. Some guy on the Ravenclaw team, Jeffery Stone."

"Oh, him. He's really nice. He's one of the beaters, and he's really good at it."

"Oh. I'm thinking about trying out for the team."

"Really?"

"Yeah, why not? It should be fun."

"Well, I hope you try out before they decide on one of these ones."

"Huh?"

"Not that I have anything against Gryffindor's, but I've been watching, and these people really aren't that good. I figure it's kind of hard to manage the quaffle and watch your back, and look out for someone to pass to."

"It's not that hard. I played chaser."

"Have you ever gotten hurt?"

"Twice. The first time, was when a fire starter was next to me, and a bludger was coming straight at us. He blew it up by accident since we didn't see it, and I got a few nasty cuts from the hot shards. And the second time was when it was ridiculously stormy out, and I took a bludger to the ribs. I was in the hospital wing with 3 shattered ribs."

"Wow, you've had some bad luck with bludgers."

Asia gave a small laugh. "Yeah. But I'm a fast healer. I take it you don't play?"

"No! I have a terrible fear of heights."

"Oh. Harry and Ron are pretty good. Have they ever gotten hurt?"

"Um, Harry once almost got bucked off his broom, but he managed to stay on, there was a rouge bludger after him once and it broke his wrist. Then our stupid DADA teacher tried to fix it and ended up taking all of the bones out of his arm. And he also once fell over 100 feet, but Dumbledore stopped him from becoming another part of the field."

"Wow. Seems he doesn't have the best of luck either."

Practice was cut short for lunch, and Hermione told Harry about Asia wanting to try out.

"Really? It would be great to have you on the team!" Harry proclaimed as he ate his pumpkin pie.

"O ou 'ave uh 'oom?" Ron's mouth was completely stuffed with food. Hermione looked revolted and turned away. Ron swallowed with difficulty, a repeated himself. "Do you have a broom?"

"Not with me. I sent off for it just before I came to the practice."

"Great…I'll save a spot for you." Harry said.

As the day went by, the 4 relaxed for a bit by the lake. It would start to get cold about next month, and not to mention the homework they would be getting, so everyone wanted to enjoy the nice weather. When the sun started to set, Asia went to the astronomy tower to find it deserted. She watch the sunset as she recited:

Soul at peace

As I rest my head

Under your watchful eye

As always

Nothing changes

The wind to kiss me goodnight

The setting sun to tuck me in

Until we untie

A stag will forever protect

Me

Us

Forever

After dinner, Asia and Hermione headed back up to their dormitory, and went to sleep.