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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

"Listen Emma-Leigh, I love you, but, I dunno… er…maybe we should just… you know… be friends." Harry looked at Emma-Leigh with his green eyes completely emotionless.

"You…d…don't…mean that.. Do...do you?" Emma-Leigh stuttered she couldn't believe it. The love of her life wanted to "just be friends".

"I'm sorry, Emma, I don't want this anymore." Emma-Leigh's eyes welled up. There was something about that last statement that wasn't right but Emma-Leigh was too distraught to notice.

"Harry, please." She begged, tears streaming down her face. She grabbed his face, trying to kiss him one last time.

"No, Emma, Good bye!" With that he walked of leaving Emma-Leigh to crumple to the floor crying.

"HARRY!" Emma-Leigh screamed sitting upright in her bed crying. It took her a full minute before she realized where she was 'it was just a dream, Thank God.' Emma-Leigh thought about her dream, 'he called me Emma, He's never called me Emma before.' She shook her head and got up out of her bed and slipped on her fuzzy pink slippers. She walked down to the common room and was surprised to se the fire already stoked and blazing. She then saw the untidy black hair she knew and loved. He was sitting there talking to the fire.
"Don't worry Sirius, luckily for me Snape realized first class that he wasn't going to bring me down."

"Yah, thanks to me!" Harry jumped about a foot and Sirius seemed to have swallowed some ash.

"Emma-Leigh! Don't worry Sirius; this is Emma-Leigh my girlfriend, she already knows about you. Er… What's the matter?" He noticed that her eyes were red.

"Oh, Nothing. Hello Sirius. What's up?" she asked avoiding the subject. She sat down next to Harry, Harry noticed her blatant avoidance and placed his arm around her shoulder.

"Well not a lot, Hey Harry, she's a looker, good job!" Sirius winked at Emma-Leigh, Emma-Leigh just smiled and said,

"Sorry Sirius, I'm taken." Sirius let out his bark like laugh.

"Good job indeed Harry. She's quick this one." Emma-Leigh just smiled and snuggled in closer to Harry.
"Anyways, back to Snivellus, Snape," he added seeing Emma-Leigh's confusion, "it's a good thing you showed him up during the first class, with the help of Emma here…"
"Emma-Leigh." Harry corrected. Emma-Leigh knew right there that her dram was just that, a dream. Harry and Sirius continued their conversation, Emma-Leigh adding things here and there. Soon enough she dozed off. Once she was asleep, Harry and Sirius's conversation turned to her.

"So, this is the Emmelz you always write about? She is pretty, you better watch her." Harry looked at Emma-Leigh.

"Yes, Yes, What?" Harry was very confused by his last statement.

"You have to keep an eye out for this one, I know your Occlumency has gotten better but Voldemort has other ways, and will know about her. Be careful. You don't know who is on his side info gets around. Listen I better go, I can no longer feel my knees. I'll write for another time." They said good-bye and Sirius disappeared with a pop. Harry snuggled in closer to Emma-Leigh and kissed her gently on the forehead. Sirius was right; he had to be really careful. He couldn't lose her. Harry soon fell asleep as well and the fire crackled down to nothing but embers.

They woke up a few hours later when Ron and Hermione shook them. It was Saturday so Harry and Emma-Leigh told them to shut up and they went back to sleep, but it only lasted about half an hour because Ron suggested that they go visit Hagrid. They all walked down to his house, Emma-Leigh and Harry a little bit behind because they were still tired from last night. Hagrid had come to fell as though he had known Emma-Leigh as long as the other three. Hagrid liked her because she shared his interest in monsters.

"'Eh everyone! Emma-Leigh, I've got a doozey for Care of Magical Creatures on Tuesday." Emma-Leigh just smiled and continued to pet Fang. They sat around the table and had some tea and rock cakes, (which no one ate but Hagrid,) and talked about Christmas break. Hagrid had gone to France to visit Madam Maxime. Grawp had gone along with them and went to visit the giants. For the most part the giants were still with he-who-must-not-be-named but Grawp had convinced 7 of them to join with Dumbledore. Harry, Hermione, and Ron cheered when Hagrid said this. Emma-Leigh had no idea what was going on so Harry gave her a 30 second summery.

"Well, Dumbledore is pretty happy, an' Grawp is happy to 'ave some o' his friends in the fores'" They talked for a little while and then walked up to the Great Hall for lunch. The gang sat in their usual spot when Draco, with Pansy clinging to his arm, as they walked past a piece of folded paper landed on top of Ron's plate. He picked it up and read it, then passed it on to the rest of them. 'we need to talk meet me in the RoR.'
"This can't be good." They each got up and Hermione looked Draco right in the eye.

Draco burst into the room in a flurry of rage. The RoR changed instantly from the couches into plush items. They didn't want to be broken.

"I HATE HER!" the door behind him sealed itself. There was no need to ask who this 'her' was, so Draco went on. "Oh my God! That stupid hoe bag slut wench whore pug-faced bitch! She finally wrote to my father about Michelle and me hanging out with you guys. So I get a letter back with my father's writing going on about how I was a disgrace to the Malfoy name, how can I even think about hanging out with you guys, that I must dump Michelle to go out with that ugly cow. If he thinks that's going to happen he's got another thing coming." Chocolate frogs appeared on the table in front of him he grabbed one and fell into the chair. "This is so unfair. As soon as I get real friends he has to take them away!"

"Draco," Emma-Leigh soothed, "he's not going to take us away sure Puggy will work as a spy… we will just have to be sneaky, send letters through owl post, meet up in here things like that. I guess you will have to start being mean to us, which is a bitch but whatever… and according to your "father's" standards Michelle is perfect for you because she is a pure blood so he can shove that up his…"
"Emma-Leigh!" Draco interrupted; she gave him look that quite plainly said What? " I like your being sneaky idea but you seem to forget that my father is a very powerful Death Eater, whether you like it or not 'we' know that you're all in the Order of the Phoenix, they have a pretty good idea who to attack to get to you Harry." He looked directly at Emma-Leigh.

"Well, it's a good thing we have a spy of our own, isn't it." Harry said. "We are going to do exactly what Emma-Leigh said, you are going to hate us again, and we are going to convince her that its legit. You will send us a letter with any owl if you find out any interesting information and we will meet up here to talk about it." Draco nodded,

"Whatever Potter." He spat it out just like old times. "Wow it feels so weird." They all sat around and talked and joked as if it was the last time they were going to see each other. Emma-Leigh, Ron, and Hermione started to leave the room, Harry held back. Draco seemed to get the hint and stayed behind.

"Er… Draco… I'm really worried about Emma-Leigh…

I cannot lose her… I don't know what you can do… but… whatever… you can please… please do so." Harry couldn't look him in the eye.

"I understand Harry, if tables were turned and I was in your shoes, I would be thinking the same thing. I will do my best." Harry hugged Draco and the world went back to the way it had been. They faced each other out side the Room of Requirement

"Potter."
"Malfoy." They turned around and walked in opposite directions.