Shiara felt physically sick. The sight of Cedric and Alicia sitting at the Gryffindor table, holding hands and feeding eachother was enough to make anybody's stomach turn. Infact, she could have sworn that she saw Fred Weasley miming puking into his bacon, further up the table.
Jake and Phil were completely oblivious as usual. Jake watching Phil put away large quantities of food in awe. Angela and Melissa were silent, watching the scene at the Gryffindor table as well.
"I could get him from here" said Shane, looking hopeful again.
"Forget it" muttered Melissa, "there is absolutely no point"
"I swear" said Angela.
Shiara said nothing, she just focused on eating her stupid bacon and stupid eggs, hoping that she wouldn't burst into tears.
After eating, she grabbed Jake and they began walking out of the great hall. As she passed the other Ravenclaws, she was the subject of many sympathetic glances and one very stupid 6th year made a stupid crack about the breakup and was immediately hexed by the trigger happy Shane.
Holding her head high, she clutched her wand and was near the doors when Cedric suddenly turned into a rather large Canary.
Alicia shrieked and started yelling at Fred Weasley who was looking satisfied. However, two seconds later, Cedric's feathers fell off and he turned on her.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU!"
shocked, shiara glared at him and said "what the hell are you talking about?"
"YOU CANT GO AROUND HEXING ME JUST BECAUSE I BROKE UP WITH YOU!"
Shiara was at loss for words, staring at Diggory, she said "You think that I turned you into a CANARY?"
"WHO ELSE WOULD IT BE?" he screamed, ignoring Alicia's gestures and Fred's laughter.
Shiara rolled her eyes and said "shut up, you drama queen. I wouldn't waste time hexing you…besides…why would I turn you into a CANARY…?"
"I DON'T KNOW !"
"wow…that's a great reason."
"APOLOGIZE !"
"EXCUSE ME!"
"APOLOGIZE FOR HEXING ME!"
"FORGET IT BIRD BRAIN…I DIDN'T HEX YOU! AND EVEN IF I DID…WHY WOULD I APOLOGIZE!"
"AHA…SO YOU DID HEX ME!"
"NO I DIDN'T!"
Shiara was ready to hit him. She had always known that Cedric wasn't the smartest guy in Hogwarts but he was quickly winning her vote for the dumbest. Next to her, jake was in fits of laughter and she didn't have to look at the rest of her friends to know that they were too.
Just when she was getting ready to REALLY turn him into a canary - permanently, George Weasley spoke up quietly in her defence.
"Shut up, Diggory, you're making an ass of yourself. Canary creams are a Weasley product. Fred and I put one in your food…leave her alone, she had nothing to do with this…apologize to her"
Cedric looked thunder struck..looking from George to her and back at George before saying "you-you didn't do it?"
"no" said Shiara, disgustedly.
Cedric muttered an apology and sat down next to Alicia and tried to ignore all the glares that were being aimed at him from all over the hall.
Shiara angrily stomped out of the hall, dragging Jake behind her.
George felt terrible. Shiara had obviously had no clue about the prank and had been horribly embarrassed because of the scene at breakfast. She hadn't come for potions, risking Snape's wrath and missing out on learning how to make a very important potion – indicating major crisis for a Ravenclaw.
He ran into Harry on his way to DADA and on a whim, borrowed his map. He found a small dot labeled Shiara Trente wandering around the 5th floor corridor with another dot labeled Blaise Zambini. Wondering why a Ravenclaw would be cutting class to spend quality time with a Slytherin, he headed off to find her and apologize.
Blaise Zambini was her favorite cousin. They had grown up together, played gobstones together, gone wand shopping together and had planned world domination with a box of chocolate frogs and a muggle toy called a light saber. She knew she could rely on Blaise to take care of her. Another great thing about him was that he always seemed to know when she was upset and he would appear out of nowhere, earning him the title "storm crow" from her friends who found this ability, quite frankly, pretty creepy.
As usual, as soon as she had left the great hall…he materialized by her side, sending Jake off with an elegant wave of his hand and dragging her off to have a private chat on the 5th floor.
Irritated, she leant against him and said "I don't know what to do"
"it is hard isn't it" it was more of a statement than a question.
"will the world ever be the same again?"
"not the same, never the same"
"but it will be ok, right?"
"I'm sure it will"
just then, George Weasley erupted onto the corridor being chased by peeves who was pelting him with inkbottles.
Quickly ducking behind a suit of armour next to them, he signaled them to not give him away. Peeves, bouncing off the walls, headed off to find him elsewhere.
Heaving a great sigh of relief, he turned around to find two pairs of eyes watching him curiously.
Nervously he said "sorry about that, it's my magnetic personality"
Shiara stared at him incredulously and then started laughing hysterically. After trying to look indignant for a brief moment, George joined her.
Blaise watched them curiously, a smile playing across his lips, "this might be interesting" he mused, smiling.