We arrived that the leaky caldron in one piece, but just barely. We had
somehow managed to squeeze 10 people into a car that was meant for about 6.
I spent the entire time being cramped between the side of the car and Amy.
Not a bad place to be if I do say so myself. But have you ever had that
feeling that you were being watched, try it for 45 minutes, by 4 rabid 13
year olds. Not fun. I sat there watching Amy reach around two girls and
pull her sisters hair so hard that I thought she was going to draw blood.
It did make the girls stop staring for a few minutes, long enough for Amy
and I to make our escape.
We bolted from that car, and were only around long enough to collect the money for our supplies and go. I couldn't stand the idea of being followed around by those 4 all afternoon. Emily by herself wasn't a bad thing, but when she got together with those it was just plain scary.
"Where too first?" Amy yelled while squeezing her way through the crowd.
"Imagine finding you two here," I heard come from a disembodied voice. Amy spotted him first, Percy great, now the day would be super fun. Ahh but the twins were with, couldn't be that bad. Wrong again the whole Weasley family is here, along with Potter, and the Granger girl. Sometimes I wondered if those three did anything apart.
"Ya just picking up the last of our supplies, I heard about your trip to Egypt that must have been amazing." Amy said more toward Mr. and Mrs. Weasley than to any of the kids. Unfortunately Ron was the first to respond
"Ya it was bloody great. You should see the corpses that the old spells have deformed and things" Mrs. Weasley stepped in
"It was a very nice trip, we all needed to just get away from awhile, Amy dear our your parents anywhere nearby?"
Amy, not looking anywhere near as confused as I felt, just nodded and said, "Yes, I left them somewhere back there." Pointing to the crowd we had just made our way through.
"Well run along dears, pick up your things, and meet us back here in exactly 2 hours." Mrs. Weasley said before disappearing through the crowd.
I felt Amy grab my sleeve and pull, but it was too late. "So can we join you two?" It came from Percy, "I do need to keep on eye on the younger ones especially these two." he said shooting the twins a look. Not that they ever paid any attention to him.
I nodded "of course Percy you're more than welcome to spend a few hours with us." He is my roommate after all I have to be nice.
And we were off, we wandered from shop to shop, picking up our supplies, and buying things we didn't really need. Learned a lot of things that day. Percy was head boy. Did that mean he would no longer be my roommate? Let me clear something up here its not that I don't like Percy its just that he can be a royal pain once in awhile. And once you've gotten to know the twins like I do its hard to believe that they come from the same two people.
As we were leaving the bookstore, I noticed Flint not to far away. Figures he'd be back for an 8th year how thick can you get, He does need to stay eligible, I don't get it. You can't tell me that he isn't half troll. Dammit he's making his way toward us.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? I guess its true the losers flock together" he said as he sauntered over to us. Oh and look he's brought his teammate.
I opened my mouth to say something, probably unintelligent, but Amy beat me to it. "so did you come up with that all on your own, or did it take your 7 years of education."
"Nobody asked your opinion now did they...." Draco Malfoy has made his presence known.
"Now. Now Draco that's no way to talk to family, now is it. Amy I assume your parents are here with you somewhere." Lucius Malfoy asked eyeing her carefully. "They don't let you out of there sight now do they."
"And for good reason, what with the likes of some wandering these streets who knows what could happen." Percy responded,
He looked at Percy, and believe me if looks could kill we would all be saying goodbye to dear old Percy
"Yes sir, they were meeting the Weasley's for a drink the last time I checked in with them," She smiled as he turned and walked away.
Leaving us standing there with Marcus Flint, and his girlfriend, some 7th year that I didn't know the name of, how anyone could be attracted to him is beyond me. I don't like the way he's leering at Amy, not in the least, especially not with his girlfriend standing right there.
"Can we do something for you Flint," I say hoping he'd take the hint and leave. No such luck to thick for that,
"Ya Wood, I was just wondering if all the rumors about your pretty little girlfriend are true." He said and the 7th year laughed. I wanted to punch them. As if she hasn't been through enough now he has to throw it in her face. I stood their blood boiling inside of me. I couldn't believe it the whole school knew what happened; hell half of them were there. Last trip to Hogsmead last year, this older wizard had grabbed her and pulled her into an alley. Luckily, Hagrid happened to come upon the whole situation and literally threw the guy off of her; last anyone heard he was spending some quality time with the dementors.
"Did we hear that she's a school prefect, and probably on her way to being head girl, ya that one we have heard." It came from Harry god bless that kid. "What have you heard." daring him to say something.
And with that Flint gave us one last glare and turned around and walked away his ugly girlfriend steps behind him.
"Well guys, we promised my parents we'd meet them half an hour ago, so we'd better be on our way." Percy, the boy with all the answers looked paler than I had ever seen him. As they turned to leave I watched Amy grab Harry by the arm and whisper something into his ear. He grinned from ear to ear as he walked away. I'll have to ask what that was all about later.
Amy and I began to walk back to where we were supposed to meet the parental units, and as she walked there next to me, I just watched her. It was easy to see why so many guys were after her. She was one the prettiest girls in school. She was thin, but an athletic thin, not a twiggy thin, she got that from all the swimming, and running she did. What that girl lacked up in the air, she made up for in the water. She had light brown hair that stopped in the middle of her back that curled even though she never let anyone see it that way. But her best trait, her eyes, she had these amazing green and gold eyes, they had been like that for as long as I can remember, and they were the first thing you noticed about her. All around a pretty nice package.
"Sorry about freezing up back there, If I would have said anything it probably would have been Marcus here's my fist I've been meaning to introduce him to you." I said trying to get her to laugh.
"It's fine," she said cracking a smile. I looked at her not really believing that she wasn't mad at me, "Really Oliver not that big of a deal, he's an ass, and we've always known that, it runs in the family."
I wanted to scream 'It is a big deal though Am, I'm your best friend, I should have been the one to say something intelligent, not Potter' But I just let it drop, I seem to be doing that a lot lately
"Is your family going to spend the night?" She asked hopeful.
"Are your sisters friends going to spend the night?" I ask
"That depends on what your answer is, if your staying they are gone, if your not then ya they will probably be there." She now is looking at me trying to read whether I want them there or not.
"Well then I'll stay and you win all around," and for some reason at that very moment I decided that she needed a hug, so I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her as tight as I could to my chest. And she then did something very un-Amy like, she started to cry. I could feel her whole body shaking, that was it Flint needed to die.
I had only see this girl cry maybe 4 time in all time I had know her, and once had been right after this whole incident had taken place and I swore up and down that no one would ever hurt her like that again, I thought enough time had passed that people would have forgotten about it. But I guess I wasn't that lucky, I decided right then and there if I had to spend my entire last year at Hogwarts kicking every ass that even looked at her wrong I would.
And that decision lasted about 10 seconds, because when she pulled out of my grasp she looked up at me with those eyes, and said, "don't even think about it, I'm a big girl and if Flint needs to get his ass kicked at some point this year it will happen. And I'll be the one who does it,"
I opened my mouth to argue and she point her finger up to my lips, "Listen to me Oliver, you want to win the cup this year, I want to see you snatch it away from Flint ok. So do me a favor. Stay eligible. Because without there captain what good is the team.
Ok she did have a point I should probably not be in detention any more than I needed to be. If I missed a lot of practice the whole team would suffer. And I did want to win more than anything.
"Uh oh here comes Emily." I said but I noticed that her friends had abandoned her
Amy looked confused, "Where'd they go?"
"Well they started talking about you," She said looking disgusted "A whole bunch of stuff that I knew wasn't true. So I told them if they knew the least bit about you, they'd know that you weren't capable of that. And Maggie kept going on and on about how she'd heard this about this you and Cedric, and that about you and some other guy, so I slugged her." She was now grinding her fist into the palm of her other hand. "And then Bella, and Jamie, got mad so I told them they could find another way home, and I came to find you."
Wow I thought to myself, maybe they are actually related. There had to be some love there, because if they weren't related they would never get along.
"You punched her." I said and I had to be looking proud.
"They only hang out with me because they think it's a fast track to you." she said smiling up at me, "What they don't understand is that there is no way that Amy would allow that." "Hey Em, do you think we could skip the London shopping today, I'll make it up to you some other time." Amy said,
"Ya no problem." Emily said as she turned around to face me, "are you spending the night with your parents."
"Last time I checked, I was ya."
"Good, maybe we could get mom to rent us a movie, the Wood's have never seen any recent ones so we could." she said getting really excited
Amy started to laugh "Ya I'm sure Mom would have no problem with that"
And with that we began our long trek to the car.
We bolted from that car, and were only around long enough to collect the money for our supplies and go. I couldn't stand the idea of being followed around by those 4 all afternoon. Emily by herself wasn't a bad thing, but when she got together with those it was just plain scary.
"Where too first?" Amy yelled while squeezing her way through the crowd.
"Imagine finding you two here," I heard come from a disembodied voice. Amy spotted him first, Percy great, now the day would be super fun. Ahh but the twins were with, couldn't be that bad. Wrong again the whole Weasley family is here, along with Potter, and the Granger girl. Sometimes I wondered if those three did anything apart.
"Ya just picking up the last of our supplies, I heard about your trip to Egypt that must have been amazing." Amy said more toward Mr. and Mrs. Weasley than to any of the kids. Unfortunately Ron was the first to respond
"Ya it was bloody great. You should see the corpses that the old spells have deformed and things" Mrs. Weasley stepped in
"It was a very nice trip, we all needed to just get away from awhile, Amy dear our your parents anywhere nearby?"
Amy, not looking anywhere near as confused as I felt, just nodded and said, "Yes, I left them somewhere back there." Pointing to the crowd we had just made our way through.
"Well run along dears, pick up your things, and meet us back here in exactly 2 hours." Mrs. Weasley said before disappearing through the crowd.
I felt Amy grab my sleeve and pull, but it was too late. "So can we join you two?" It came from Percy, "I do need to keep on eye on the younger ones especially these two." he said shooting the twins a look. Not that they ever paid any attention to him.
I nodded "of course Percy you're more than welcome to spend a few hours with us." He is my roommate after all I have to be nice.
And we were off, we wandered from shop to shop, picking up our supplies, and buying things we didn't really need. Learned a lot of things that day. Percy was head boy. Did that mean he would no longer be my roommate? Let me clear something up here its not that I don't like Percy its just that he can be a royal pain once in awhile. And once you've gotten to know the twins like I do its hard to believe that they come from the same two people.
As we were leaving the bookstore, I noticed Flint not to far away. Figures he'd be back for an 8th year how thick can you get, He does need to stay eligible, I don't get it. You can't tell me that he isn't half troll. Dammit he's making his way toward us.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? I guess its true the losers flock together" he said as he sauntered over to us. Oh and look he's brought his teammate.
I opened my mouth to say something, probably unintelligent, but Amy beat me to it. "so did you come up with that all on your own, or did it take your 7 years of education."
"Nobody asked your opinion now did they...." Draco Malfoy has made his presence known.
"Now. Now Draco that's no way to talk to family, now is it. Amy I assume your parents are here with you somewhere." Lucius Malfoy asked eyeing her carefully. "They don't let you out of there sight now do they."
"And for good reason, what with the likes of some wandering these streets who knows what could happen." Percy responded,
He looked at Percy, and believe me if looks could kill we would all be saying goodbye to dear old Percy
"Yes sir, they were meeting the Weasley's for a drink the last time I checked in with them," She smiled as he turned and walked away.
Leaving us standing there with Marcus Flint, and his girlfriend, some 7th year that I didn't know the name of, how anyone could be attracted to him is beyond me. I don't like the way he's leering at Amy, not in the least, especially not with his girlfriend standing right there.
"Can we do something for you Flint," I say hoping he'd take the hint and leave. No such luck to thick for that,
"Ya Wood, I was just wondering if all the rumors about your pretty little girlfriend are true." He said and the 7th year laughed. I wanted to punch them. As if she hasn't been through enough now he has to throw it in her face. I stood their blood boiling inside of me. I couldn't believe it the whole school knew what happened; hell half of them were there. Last trip to Hogsmead last year, this older wizard had grabbed her and pulled her into an alley. Luckily, Hagrid happened to come upon the whole situation and literally threw the guy off of her; last anyone heard he was spending some quality time with the dementors.
"Did we hear that she's a school prefect, and probably on her way to being head girl, ya that one we have heard." It came from Harry god bless that kid. "What have you heard." daring him to say something.
And with that Flint gave us one last glare and turned around and walked away his ugly girlfriend steps behind him.
"Well guys, we promised my parents we'd meet them half an hour ago, so we'd better be on our way." Percy, the boy with all the answers looked paler than I had ever seen him. As they turned to leave I watched Amy grab Harry by the arm and whisper something into his ear. He grinned from ear to ear as he walked away. I'll have to ask what that was all about later.
Amy and I began to walk back to where we were supposed to meet the parental units, and as she walked there next to me, I just watched her. It was easy to see why so many guys were after her. She was one the prettiest girls in school. She was thin, but an athletic thin, not a twiggy thin, she got that from all the swimming, and running she did. What that girl lacked up in the air, she made up for in the water. She had light brown hair that stopped in the middle of her back that curled even though she never let anyone see it that way. But her best trait, her eyes, she had these amazing green and gold eyes, they had been like that for as long as I can remember, and they were the first thing you noticed about her. All around a pretty nice package.
"Sorry about freezing up back there, If I would have said anything it probably would have been Marcus here's my fist I've been meaning to introduce him to you." I said trying to get her to laugh.
"It's fine," she said cracking a smile. I looked at her not really believing that she wasn't mad at me, "Really Oliver not that big of a deal, he's an ass, and we've always known that, it runs in the family."
I wanted to scream 'It is a big deal though Am, I'm your best friend, I should have been the one to say something intelligent, not Potter' But I just let it drop, I seem to be doing that a lot lately
"Is your family going to spend the night?" She asked hopeful.
"Are your sisters friends going to spend the night?" I ask
"That depends on what your answer is, if your staying they are gone, if your not then ya they will probably be there." She now is looking at me trying to read whether I want them there or not.
"Well then I'll stay and you win all around," and for some reason at that very moment I decided that she needed a hug, so I wrapped my arm around her waist and pulled her as tight as I could to my chest. And she then did something very un-Amy like, she started to cry. I could feel her whole body shaking, that was it Flint needed to die.
I had only see this girl cry maybe 4 time in all time I had know her, and once had been right after this whole incident had taken place and I swore up and down that no one would ever hurt her like that again, I thought enough time had passed that people would have forgotten about it. But I guess I wasn't that lucky, I decided right then and there if I had to spend my entire last year at Hogwarts kicking every ass that even looked at her wrong I would.
And that decision lasted about 10 seconds, because when she pulled out of my grasp she looked up at me with those eyes, and said, "don't even think about it, I'm a big girl and if Flint needs to get his ass kicked at some point this year it will happen. And I'll be the one who does it,"
I opened my mouth to argue and she point her finger up to my lips, "Listen to me Oliver, you want to win the cup this year, I want to see you snatch it away from Flint ok. So do me a favor. Stay eligible. Because without there captain what good is the team.
Ok she did have a point I should probably not be in detention any more than I needed to be. If I missed a lot of practice the whole team would suffer. And I did want to win more than anything.
"Uh oh here comes Emily." I said but I noticed that her friends had abandoned her
Amy looked confused, "Where'd they go?"
"Well they started talking about you," She said looking disgusted "A whole bunch of stuff that I knew wasn't true. So I told them if they knew the least bit about you, they'd know that you weren't capable of that. And Maggie kept going on and on about how she'd heard this about this you and Cedric, and that about you and some other guy, so I slugged her." She was now grinding her fist into the palm of her other hand. "And then Bella, and Jamie, got mad so I told them they could find another way home, and I came to find you."
Wow I thought to myself, maybe they are actually related. There had to be some love there, because if they weren't related they would never get along.
"You punched her." I said and I had to be looking proud.
"They only hang out with me because they think it's a fast track to you." she said smiling up at me, "What they don't understand is that there is no way that Amy would allow that." "Hey Em, do you think we could skip the London shopping today, I'll make it up to you some other time." Amy said,
"Ya no problem." Emily said as she turned around to face me, "are you spending the night with your parents."
"Last time I checked, I was ya."
"Good, maybe we could get mom to rent us a movie, the Wood's have never seen any recent ones so we could." she said getting really excited
Amy started to laugh "Ya I'm sure Mom would have no problem with that"
And with that we began our long trek to the car.