a/n So I'm sorry I haven't updated in awhile. I've been really lazy and doing other things, like writing non-fanfiction things. Worst of all this is even a short chapter. Maybe even the shortest chapter I've written for this story. Well I hope it's good, for the most part its a fill in chapter, which may be the reason it took me so long to write it. Who knows... REVIEW



After the holiday was over everything seemed to be back to normal. Like real normal, like all the years before this year. Umbridge wasn't even excitant in my mind because in her class I completely ignored everything she said and I never had contact with her out-side of class anymore.

I was still the moody Katie Bell we all had gotten to know so well this year but some how after my walk with Oliver I was able to go back to being the sarcastic, spontaneous, confident, goof ball Katie that everyone loved and knew from years before.

We got back to being the careless wild teenagers that everyone else in the school expected us to be. Fred and George were both running about like chickens with their head cut off testing there snack boxes on first years. Hermione wasn't so pleased with this and kept trying to get Ron to back her up when trying to stop the twins. Ron knew that if he did one of their Nosebleed Nougats would some how end up in his food.

I continued to write to Oliver and he always wrote back. It was like some how over night life became the closest thing to perfect I found possible.

Quidditch continued and Jack Sloper and Andrew Kirke replaced Fred and George. They were pretty good beaters so Fred and George approved. They didn't really seem to mind all that much anymore that they were no longer on the team. It was weird too because I recall them once saying that the only reason they continued to return to Hogwarts each year was to play quidditch. As well Ginny replaced Harry as Seeker. Once after watching her flying around the field I was wondering if the Weasleys just have a natural ability to play quidditch. I believed this until I turned around to see Ron attempting to play Keeper.

We had a game coming up and I told Oliver to come. Surprisingly when I got down to the pitch the afternoon for the game; half way in between the entrance to the pitch and the Gryffindor locker rooms was none other then the Oliver "Big Head" Wood.

"What are you doing here so early?" I asked him

"I didn't think you would have been able to come at all with your busy Pro-Quidditch schedule" I continued mocking him a little bit.

"I'm down here to recap all the memories I have in this pitch before everyone comes stampeding in. What are you doing down here so early…the game isn't for another three hours." He answered giving me that cocky smile of his as I reached him.

"I was raised by you in this sport. Its second nature for me to show up three hours early for some last minute practicing" I said giving him a look to emphasize that fact that I was making fun of him.

"It's amazing the affect I have on people" He said putting his hand on my shoulder.

"It's amazing that your head doesn't cause you to fall over" I said walking past him towards the locker room to get changed.

"Can you ever mock anything other then the size of my head?" He said making fun of my lack of good insults today.

I walked into the locker room and he followed.

"Wood what are you doing?" I asked after realizing I was not alone in the room.

"Want to practice with me? Like old times?" He asked after approaching me as I was standing in front of my locker with my shirt only half on.

"Yeah but could you not watch me change it's a bit creepy" I said laughing a bit because I know that he wasn't in here to watch me change but I like to make a big deal about little things like that.

He laughed and walked over to where his old locker used to be. He opened it and looked like he was about to cry at the emptiness of the locker that once held most of his most prize possessions.

I walked over after changing into my quidditch robes and patted him on the back.

"Having a hard time growing up Olli?" I said in a queer little voice.

"Ready?" He asked turning around to look at me ignoring what I just said.

"Yeah, do you have a broom?" I asked

"No…know of one I can borrow?" He said like he was just remembering that you need a broom to play quidditch.

"Yeah" I said walking over to a pile of brooms in the corner of the locker room.

"It's not what your used to I'm sure but it should keep you up" I continued handing Oliver a broom.

"Thanks" he said as I grabbed my broom and we headed out on to the pitch together.

Madame Hooch was in the center of the pitch inspecting the balls like she did before every game. We walked over to her to see if she had inspected the Quaffle already. She seemed shocked to see the two of us walking over to where she was standing.

"Mr. Wood this is a surprise! How have you been?" She said looking up at us.

"I've been good. I'm a bench warmer for the Wasps, and I might even get to play next year." He said laughing at the way he tells people he is on the Wasps. Madame Hooch seemed to find it funny as well.

"Professor I was wondering if we could use the quaffle. Oliver was going to help me prepare for the game this afternoon." I said in my super polite tone that Oliver seemed shocked to witness.

"Oh sure honey, just if it starts acting up tell me will ya?" She said handing the quaffle over to me.

Oliver flew up to the rings and I flew to the other side of the pitch to practice flying fast with the quaffle. I flew up to be about a foot away from him and threw the quaffle into the hoop.

"I was not expecting that." Oliver said in a weird tone.

"What were you expecting?" I asked as I retrieved the quaffle.

"Not that" He said with a chuckle.

We went on practicing together for a long time. Before I knew it Angelina was entering the pitch. We saw her and decide it was enough for now so went down to talk to her.

"Wood are you trying to take over my job?" Angelina said with a laugh.

"No Ange I think that was more practice for me then it was for him." I said laughing and punching Oliver in the shoulder.

"What? No way I gave you tons of pointers!" Oliver said in protest.

"Yeah only so you knew what I was going to do next so you could finally stop the quaffle." I said laughing at him. Angelina laughed at us and walked into the locker rooms.

I stayed out in the pitch with Oliver just running around until about a half hour before the game started. Then I returned into the locker rooms with my team and Oliver went up to find a seat in the stands to watch the game.

We won the game and the cup, shockingly because Ron saved some goals. So the Gryffindor house carried him up to the common room to party.

"Katie you coming?" I herd Ginny ask before she left the room as I was just getting to my locker.

"Um maybe soon, I'll come find you if I get up there." I answered back. She smiled and left the room.

Then as soon as I was standing there in just my bra and jeans the door flew open and in came Oliver.

"Goodness boy do you like wait until you know I'm not wearing a shirt to come in here?" I asked laughing.

"Well I'm sorry that every time you see me you rip your shirt off Kates" He said laughing at the thought. I burst out into laughter and he was laughing harder now that I found that so funny.

"I have to give you props Wood that was a pretty good comeback." I said once I stopped laughing enough to talk, putting my shirt on. The amount of times the boys on the quidditch team have seen me in my bra is amazing. I'm surprised they didn't make another room when girls were allowed on the teams.

"So what are you doing now?" I asked Oliver who was back daydreaming while staring into his empty locker.

"I don't know we could go up to the party in the common room" I said walking over to make sure he was still sane.

"Am I allowed to go into the school?" Oliver asked coming back to realty.

"Yeah why wouldn't you be able to?" I asked like he was speaking a different language.

"Umbridge" he said with a shiver like he had actually met the woman.

"Why do you say it like that? Granted her name would do that to anyone who's met her" I said with a look on my face like I was a cop questioning him about a murder.

"I've met her…earlier today…which is how I know she wont be so found as to see me in the school" He said laughing at the look on my face.

"Why were you in the school today?" I asked with the same look.

"I went to go find you to ask if you wanted to practice or something…but she stopped me and viciously threw me out of the school" He said with his shiver returning.

"Well then we will just have to disguise you as a student won't we." I said with an evil smile on my face as I caught the sight of some school robes that someone had left in the locker room.

So he put the robes but they didn't fit and he was obviously awkward in them. I was staring at him trying to figure out what to do when I burst out into laughter.

"What in the world is so funny!" Oliver asked mad that I was laughing at him.

"I was realizing how dumb you looked and then I remember something…" I said and then continued laughing.

"And what might it be that you remembered?" He asked in a very stubborn way.

"We are magic…we can just charm you to be wearing robes that fit and even like change your hair or something so you look different." I said finally getting to a serious tone.

Oliver shortly laughed but not to hard trying to keep his cool. Then he walked over to the mirrors and charmed him self into Gryffindor robes and loner untidy hair and his glasses. He rarely ever wore his glasses in school and unless she some sort of stalker, which isn't exactly doubtful, Umbridge has never seen him with his glasses on. He looked very much like a 6th year student vs. the almost twenty year old Oliver that had walked into the locker room not to long ago.

"See now she won't even notice that you're not a student… if she ever even sees you at all." I said chuckling at the site of the younger Oliver in front of me that had never been.

"Well will anyone else be able to recognize me…because if not its almost pointless for me to go." He said in an almost worried voice.

"Oh yeah because you know that if no one notices you, you might even die from the drop that your ego will have" I said punching him in the shoulder.

"No really will they be able to?" He asked ignoring my comment.

"Ha yes don't worry about it" I said and started walking out the door.

We headed up to the common room. We never once even saw the trail of Umbridge or any of her Slytherin minions. And as soon as we got into the Gryffindor common room all of the girls were commenting on Oliver's hair and shocked that someone as "famous" as him was still hanging around school.

"I guess they recognize you Wood…So your ego will survive and by the sounds of it, your ego's going to grow." I said and walked over to talk to the Weasley family.

"Did he see today's game!" Ron asked me very enthusiastically as I reached the clan.

"Yeah he will talk to you about it later I'm sure" I said walking to stand next Fred and George.

"Good game" Fred said awkwardly.

"Yeah but it would have been better if you guys were still playing." I said trying to keep this awkward dieing conversation going.

"There's another D.A. meeting coming up Katie" Ginny said to me proudly.

"So why is he here?" George asked.

"Who" I said startled because I had been day dreaming out the window down towards the pitch.

"Wood, why is he here?" He continued and asked his question again knowing that I didn't really hear it the first time.

"Oh, I don't know, he said he wanted to come to a game this year. I guess this was the only time he had a chance to come" I answered half heartedly

"Hey guys better stop talking about me before I find out how you really feel about me." Oliver said popping up in front of us not noticing that we really had just been talking about him.

"Yeah we wouldn't want you to figure out that not everyone loves you." I said getting some what grouchy.

"Oh Ron nice game today, who knows maybe someday you can be as good as me." Oliver said ignoring my comment.

"You think so!" Ron screeched. That may have been the best thing Wood could have ever said to him.

He went off to talk to Ron about the game and I snuck off before anyone could stop me. Oddly enough I wanted to sleep.

The next morning I got up really late and had to skip breakfast. Then I mindlessly went threw all of my classes and seemed very zombie like for most of the day. During lunch I was shaken out of a day dream by a small red headed girl plopping on the bench next to me.

"Are you going to the meeting tonight Katie?" Ginny asked once realizing I had come out of my trance.

"Yeah I suppose…if I'm awake enough" I joked and she laughed.

"That's a bummer about Oliver, eh?" She said on a more serious topic.

"Something happened to Oliver?" I said sounding a bit too concerned.

"Yeah, oh that's right you went to bed didn't you." She said pausing to take a bite of her sandwich I nodded.

"He got caught by one of Umbridge's minions on his way out last night. She sent him to the Ministry to go on trial for trust passing. My dad thinks he should be able to get out of it ok, but we don't know how his quidditch coach is going to take it." She continued adding the part about her dad after seeing the look on my face.

"That reminds me. Fred gave me this to give to you. It came this morning." Ginny said reaching into her robes and pulling out an envelope and handing it to me.

"That's right, where are Fred and George?" I asked at the mention of Fred I realized that it was just me and Ginny sitting at the part of the table that my friends normally shared.

"Planning something I'm sure. Well I'll see you later." She said with a famous Weasley smile and left me at the table.

After she left I opened the envelope.

Dear Katie,

Hey I can't right much because everything I do is being monitored but I didn't see you much last night and I wanted to make sure everything was okay. As well I know you enough to know that you're probably either really worried or really mad at me right now and I want to tell you that I will be okay. The worst that could happen is that I will get in trouble on the team. It's not like going to a party is going to get me shipped away to Azkaban. But be careful, snitches can be very hard to see when they are moving fast.

Love,

Oliver Wood

So he knows me well enough to tell me he's okay, but that can't be the only reason that he is righting to me. And what's with the random quidditch tip in the letter. Wood is weird and all but there has to be something more to that.

I sat for most of the rest of the day trying to figure out what that meant. But before I could figure it out Ginny was jumping on top of me. She wanted me to walk with her and her boyfriend to the D.A. meeting.

During the meeting the door of the room that we met at flew open and this small house elf that looked like he just stared death in the eye burst into the room yelling about something to Harry. Before we knew it Harry had everyone quickly depart the room.

As I was running I spotted Ginny and we rushed away together. All of the sudden two arms grabbed us and pulled us into a hallway that I had never been through before.

I thought we had been caught by someone and was ready to open up my eyes and see Malfoy or Umbridge in front of me.

I went to talk and felt a hand quickly cover my mouth and herd a familiar voice say "Be quiet or they'll find us."

I opened my eyes to see Fred trying to hide me and George trying to hide Ginny. Soon I herd foot steps go by our hiding place.

"You think the rest of them are back into their common rooms yet?" Said one of the voices

"Probably, Umbridge has a list of the names though; it's either good-bye to Dumbledore or that stupid Harry Potter, and Oliver Wood is going to Azkaban. This is a perfect day for me." The other voice said. I recognized it as the current Slytherin quidditch captain.

"Wood's going to Azkaban?" The first voice said.

"No, but if Umbridge gets it her way then he will be there for a long time. She thinks he has been contacting Harry threw that Katie Bell girl, that the three of them are planning something." The captain said.

I wanted to scream, and Fred seemed to know that because he placed his hand over my mouth again and held me closer.

"If you say something it will just make everything worse and it will almost prove her right." He said in the quietest voice I've ever herd.

After a bit the boys left and Fred and George tried to sneak us back into the common room with out being seen.

On our way back we saw Marietta Edgecombe run by crying with the word "SNEAK" written on her face in pimple like things.

"She told them!" Ginny yelled at a whisper.

"We need to ask Hermione about that spell!" The twins said admiring her work.

After the coast was clear again we hurried back to the common room and went to bed. I couldn't sleep because the words of the Slytherin kept running threw my head. 'If Umbridge gets her way….' She wouldn't though, Mr. Weasley thought he could get out of it, and he got Harry out okay.

I really hope that Oliver is okay though. Wait a minute… what Oliver said "But be careful, snitches can be very hard to see when they are moving fast". He knew this was going to happen, that's what he was trying to say, that's why he sent the letter.


One last reminder to review! And once again sorry for taking forever to post and having it a short chapter.