Chapter 2.

After a long goodbye Mr. Wood took Katie and Oliver to platform 9 ¾ and they arrived just in time not to miss the train. Mr. Wood hugged Katie and slapped his son on his back and told them to take care of each other and to make sure that they both made sure to write Mrs. Wood. Oliver grabbed Katie's trunk, and Katie took the brooms, it had been this way sense Katie's first trip to Hogwarts.

As the two sat down in a compartment and started to play with a minute quiddich pitch Fred, George and there friend Lee popped there heads in. All three boys took a double take at Katie.

"Katie-" George started.

"-Bell" Fred finished.

"My, my our little Bell grew up over the summer." George laughed.

"Indeed, good brother, she did grow up a bit into a-" Fred started.

"A dashing"

"Amazingly"

"Outstanding"

"Beautiful" Wood chimed in, which shocked everyone.

"Right, Beautiful Katie Bell." George finished. Lee during this had almost fallen over laughing, and Katie was bright red. Not to mention staring at Wood in total shock, she expected something like that from the twins, but not her best mate.

"So Fred, George" She stared as they sat down on either side of her putting there arms around her. "Good summer?"

"Splendid," George Smiled and with that Fred and George started to tickle Miss Bell.

"Fred, George, come-on stop." She laughed none stopped; Wood however looked rather annoyed with the twins, and mostly George who really had taken to Katie.

A very loud screech was the only thing that stopped everyone. Angelina Johnson and Alicia Snippet had come running into the compartment and hugged Katie. Ang, and Ali were Katie's good mates. Although they were a year ahead of Katie, Katie was able to talk her way into sharing a dorm with the two girls, after all Katie did not really get along with anyone in her year, minus Leanne, but it was not the same.

"Kates how have you been?" Ang said sitting down on Fred's lap. Fred smiled and wrapped his arms around his girlfriend.

"Not bad." She laughed watching Woods expression as Ang sat down. "Wood I told you about that, you just never paid any attention to me. Or seem to notice when your teammates fancy each other. Someone might call you daft, we just know you never stop thinking about quidditch." Wood glared at his best friend, and than was even more shocked when George picked Katie up and put her on his lap, to give room for Ali, who did not sit down next to them all, in fact she sat on Lee's lap.

"Kates we have so much to tell you, too bad you didn't want to join us for the rest of the summer." Ali smiled, as Lee blushed.

"Sorry, but you know how close I am to my brother. Anyways I didn't want to leave Wood up to his own devices, he would have nothing but quidditch if I had not been around." She smiled looking at Wood. Katie really did not take much notice the blush on Woods face or the fact that George had wrapped his arms around her. It was one of the twins, so it really did not cause her to think twice about it.

The rest of the trip passed with jokes, and laughs, filling each other in about their summers, families and such.

Well except when the demontor came on the train, and Fred and George went off to find there family, they came back shortly after, but everyone was a bit shaken by it. George had put Katie one his lap once again, and she was actually glad.

Wood had tuned out and started to read some Quiddich books, Katie had taken notice of his quite attitude and stand off nature with everyone, but said nothing. As they reached Hogwarts they all changed into there robes the rest of the time passed quickly.

"Wood!" She called out as she jogged to catch him, she had to dive into the carriage so that he would not leave her and ride up to the castle alone.

"Yea Bell" He said rather short which took her by surprise as she was lying on her stomach.

"Thanks for the help up Oliver, really." She glared at him as she sat next to him and put an arm around him. He shrugged it off, and she just looked at him shocked.

"What's with you Wood?" She was really taken back by his attitude towards her.

"Nothing," he lied, he did not want to admit that he was jealous of George.

"Come on Wood I know you better than that." She sighed leaning back and looking at her feet.

"Promise Bellie its nothing to worry about." With that he figured if it worked for George it would work for him too, he picked her up and placed her on his lap and hugged her.

Totally in shock she hugged him back, after all he was her best mate she was not going to worry about sitting on his lap, although something inside her told her that this was more than a friends hug.

As they moved to the great hall and the team sat together, as always, well minus Harry who always seemed to be the odd man out with them, although they all loved him.

"Hey Kates!" Ang almost yelled out of nowhere, even though she was sitting across from Katie. Katie jumped and just looked at her waiting to talk, in fact about half the table had looked at her. "Ah, I'll talk to you later about it." She smiled as Fred wrapped an arm around her, while Lee and Ali were looking at each other intently, which gave off a bit of awkwardness between George, Katie, and Oliver. Who were in fact sitting in that order.

As dinner passed Katie did not take notice, as George and Oliver did, of all the other boys who were looking at her, staring and talking about how she had grown. Cedric came up behind her and hugged her. Katie jumped up turned and flung his arms around his neck. "Dig!" She smiled as they had a bit of small chat before Cedric got a bit wary at the looks he was getting for keeping an arm around her waist.

"Well T I'll catch you later!" Cedric called as he went back to his table. The sorting and everything passed fast. The warnings about Black did not come much too a surprise, and than as Dumbledore wished them all a good night Katie walked up to the dorm with her friends doing a bit of her typical over excited dances, or just when she had to much energy.

"Hey Katie, can I talk to you?" To her surprise it was Wood who had sounded so formal with her.

"Sure." She looked to the other 5 (which included the twins, Lee, Ang, and Ali). Katie followed him to a different hallway looking at him worried.

"Katie I need to know if you are dating Cedric, because if you are, than this could be bad for the team." Wood looked dead serious, and he was only upset that Katie had hugged him.

"Um, Wood…" She looked at him rather blankly. "I'm not dating Ced, he is just one of my mates that is all he will ever be. Trust me." With that she gave him a short hug, a kiss on the cheek, which was in her mind nothing. Yet his heart had leaped. "I'm going to go talk to Ang and Ali, see you late?" She asked, he nodded unable to speak, and she vanished into the common room behind Harry and his two friends Hermione and Ron.

Katie had said her hellos to Harry and his mates. She had hugged Harry, and never noticed how upset George looked at that. She than bounded up the stairs to her room where Ali and Ang where waiting for her.

"Where have you been?" They both demanded one after another.

"Talking to Wood, he told me that if I was dating Cedric I would have to quit the team… He's a crazy one." She smiled, and both the girls smirked and started to giggle.

"What?" Katie asked honestly puzzled.

"Have you not noticed that you have been turning heads all night?" Ang asked as she placed a picture of Fred and her next to the picture of Ali, Ang, and Katie that all three girls had on there bed side table.

Katie looked shocked at them both. "I have not, that is your two's job… not mine! I am just the sidekick! The random one of the group." And Katie truly thought that as well, anyways she had never really had a serious crush on a boy. Well the on and off crushes on Wood and George never seemed to mean much to her.

"Katie" Alicia started, looking very seriously at her. "Oliver and George are completely into you, not to mention everyone else in our year. I mean me and Ang's year. And all the years above us. Have you not noticed how you have changed?"

"I'm still Katie!" She said as she put a picture of her and her brother on her bed stand.

"Kates you're a knock out sweets" Ang stepped in and handed Katie the picture she dropped of her and Oliver over the years.

"Nah." Katie really did not think she looked that different. Sure her blonde hair had gotten longer, and her chest had grown some, but she still was the same Katie. Tomboy Katie who always kept up with the boys, and over half the time beat them.

"Sure Katie." Ang and Ali exchanged smiles. It was true that the three of them where some of the better looking girls of the school, just Katie never seemed to think she was among them, in fact in her mind she was one the who would be most likely voted the moose.