Chapter 4.

Quidditch tryouts. Talk about painful. The team needed a new keeper with Wood gone, and well… tryouts were painful. The whole bloody thing was painful. Katie and Ang were always arguing about things. Harry couldn't even make it to the tryouts, which drove Ang crazy. She didn't understand why Katie wasn't as mad as she was.

"Ang calm down, its Ron. Harry's best mate." Katie snapped at her friend.

Ang glared at her and the next thing she knew Katie was left standing with Ali and George.

"Katie you don't have to be so hard on her." Ali said looking at her.

Katie threw her hands up and stormed away from the group. She had been working with two of the best chasers in the world for over a month, and the Gryffindor team was just frustrating.

Katie started to hang out on her own most of time; she just did not care about much anymore. She focused all of her free time on Quidditch, and, not to mention, she was constantly getting owls from Alec and Troy with tidbits of information and that would help strengthen her game.

"Katie are you all right?" It was Harry. It was just after a practice and Katie had stayed late working on a few things.

"Yeah," she said as she shot him an odd look, "you?"

"Yeah." He replied before sitting down next to her. "They're all worried about you."

"I know," she said with a small smile. It's nothing to worry about Potter." Her smile grew a bit wider as if to merely reassure him.

"Katie you're an amazing chaser; we need you happy." He said pleading with her.

"The only time I'm happy is when I am playing," she answered with a sad smile.

Harry looked into her eyes for a moment. He wanted to help but had to many things on his plate, and he was not about to share them with Katie.

"Ok." He smiled. "Well come on, I know George wants to talk to you."

Katie laughed and nodded. She followed him up to the castle talking about Quidditch. She couldn't help but think she was getting as bad as Wood. When they reached the castle, George was pacing back and forth.

"Katie?" He looked at her worried before throwing his arms around her, "I'm so sorry."

"George…" She hugged him but was utterly confused. "What are you talking about?"

George acted as if he hadn't heard her question and only hugged her tighter. "Come to Hogsmeade with me on the fifth?" He asked almost in a whisper.

"Of course," she answered with a bit of a sigh.

"Good." With that he took her hand and walked up to the tower with her. Harry had long since vanished.

Things had been strange and everything was a bit of a mess. Umbridge was awful, and instead of the Hogsmeade visit she knew George had planned, there was a meeting for something Harry had decided to start.

Katie walked into the Hog's Head with Ang and Ali. It was filled with a few people from different houses, no Slytherins of course, but Katie didn't care about that an awful lot. She listened to Harry and nodded when they were told everything. She had consented to join Dumbledore's Army.

Two days later, Umbridge had banned all student organizations. She was outraged. She banned Quidditch and was making it nearly impossible to start up again. Katie spent hours with Ang organizing the best ways to get her to approve the team. It was the most annoying night she had ever spent.

She was happy that Ang had pulled it off the next day, and they had a Quidditch practice. Things were fine, except Katie was a bit annoyed with everything. She was not in a good mood, and would rather be working with Alec.

The next day was the first meeting for the DA. It was a bit odd and seemed very scary. It made life very different… so much for a typical seven years at Hogwarts. However, it made sense with Harry Potter a year below… that kid always attracted some sort of trouble.

Everything felt like a tornado. They had their first match against Slytherin, and Harry, Fred and George all got banded from playing.

"Katie!" George yelled as she ran up to him, his eyes filled with worry. She, for once, could care less about a Quidditch game. "Stop." Katie had been going on about a stupid game, and he didn't know what to think. "You love Quidditch."

"I know." She sighed. "But unlike Wood, I care about my friends more!" She snapped.

He laughed and pulled her into a hug, "Good to know."

The DA meetings carried on once a week, and the last one came two days before the end of term. Katie and George had been in each other's company most of the time. For some reason, they had started to need each other's company.

That night Katie, Ali, and Ang had stayed up late talking about plans for the holiday, Quidditch, and of course boys. Ali and Ang were talking about how this was their last year.

"You know, you could leave that part of conversations out around me. What the bloody Hell am I going to do?" She snapped whilst leaning back in her bed.

"Katie, we promise to write you once a week, if not more." Ali said with a sad smile.

"I know," Katie muttered. "It's just going to be hard."

Ali and Ang hated the fact that Katie was younger then they were. "Promise, Kates, we're never going to forget you!" Ang added.

"Yeah, yeah, I know!"

Finally, after an hour, they all drifted to sleep. Ali and Katie were on her bed, and Ang was on Ali's.