Chapter 2

Hogwarts Bound

"Kerri it's time to wake up!" Harry said knocking on her door and opening it. "What time is it?" Kerri mumbled in halfway asleep as she sat up. "It's four thirty in the morning." Harry told her cheerfully. "Mrs. Weasley wants an early start we're always late every year." Harry told her. "So she wants a seven hour head start? I'm going back to bed."

"What's going on with you and Fred?" Harry asked her trying to sound casual and spring it upon her by surprise. "Okay when Ron tried that with Hermione she still didn't tell him who she was going to the Yule Ball with and there is nothing there. Fred and I are just friends period the end of discussions." "Oh come on I've seen the way you two look at each other." "Excuse me." Kerri choked and burst out laughing. "Fred and I are just friends nothing more to the story." "Okay see you down stairs in a bit." Harry said sighing.

Kerri grudgingly got out of bed and got dressed. She packed everything in thirty minutes. Breakfast was a rowdy affair and everyone was talking a mile a minute. The adults who were taking them to King's Cross were almost all there except for Mad Eye Moody who had been busy for the Order the night before.

At an hour to eleven they left. Kerri smirked, "So much for getting up early." Taking them to King's Cross were Arthur Weasley, Molly Weasley, Mad Eye Moody, Remus Lupin, Tonks, Fred and George. They had cabs ordered from London Harry couldn't help feeling sorry for the drivers. Kerri sat between Fred and Hermione. It was becoming a contest between George and Hermione who looked more annoyed.

Fred escorted Kerri into the station. They waited for everybody else. "Kerri I need to talk to you before the others get here." "About what?" Kerri asked him innocently. Her heart beat a little faster she had a feeling she knew about what. "Um it's just that I care for you very much." Fred said he cringed inside. Cared for her very much? What kind of stupid shit was that? "And I care for you very much." "No I mean." Kerri saw the others joining them fast. "You've got to promise to write me every day." Kerri said loudly. Harry gave her a weird look Kerri looked away from him. "All right I'll send daily reports. Dear Kerri woke up at six am. Had a shower followed by breakfast then George and I opened up the shop. Around noon George left me for some little British angel he had lunch with so I ate cold sandwiches by myself." Fred said. Everyone laughed.

Kerri hugged Fred and maybe a little tighter than usual. Harry saw her give him a quick kiss on the cheek. What was going on there?
Kerri saw with Melissa, Dean, Seamus and Neville they were joined in the compartment by Harry, Ron, and Hermione. "And speak of the devil themselves." Seamus said laughing. "So how was everyone's summer was it as lame as mine?" Melissa asked. Kerri rolled her eyes. "Would you rather have it lame or be stuck with Draco Malfoy?" Kerri asked. "Okay yours was far worse." Dean said giving her a hug.

"Don't let my father here you say that Kerri or he'll be heartbroken." Draco said. "I'll bet." Kerri muttered standing up. Harry stood up beside her. Draco had followed Ginny Weasley. Behind him were his cronies Crabbe and Goyle beside him girlfriend Stacy Snape, behind Crabbe and Goyle a few Slytherin girls among them Tracey Davis.

"I'd like a word alone with you McLand." Draco drawled. "She's not interested." Harry snapped. Kerri gave him a look. "No I'm not but that's beside the point look just shove off a cliff and die Malfoy." Kerri said. "Say that again and louder and I protest that too." Stacy said. "Big words need action." Kerri replied. Stacy raised her wand but before all hell could really brake loose Draco kissed Kerri. Stacy punched him in the back of the head sending him forward. Harry and Ron jumped on him Crabbe and Goyle were helping Malfoy so Dean and Seamus jumped in and Kerri was kicking Malfoy.

Hermione let out a shrill scream. "I am Head Girl and stop all this at once or it will be fifteen points from Slytherin as soon as we get up to the castle. Now I've written McGonagall so she will deal with you Malfoy as soon as you get to the school. All of you get out get out now before I dock fifty points from Slytherin." They moved quickly. "Kerri are you all right?" Hermione asked her. Kerri glared at her and turned away. "What did you go and write McGonagall for you little snitch? I had it under control." "Malfoy can't kiss anyone he likes and I thought – "Stop thinking you know what stop breathing." Kerri stormed up to the carriages ahead of the others. Dean, Seamus and Melissa rode with her. Nobody said a word.

A subdued group walked into the hall. Kerri sat at the Gryffindor table before she saw him. "Hold on what's Oliver Wood doing here?" Kerri demanded looking up at the staff table. "He's here?" Melissa said shocked looking up sure enough there he was. "He's teaching the DADA class what do you think?" Hermione said in a snooty tone as she Harry and Ron and Ginny sat across from them. "Well I can see two mistakes Dumbledore has made in the lineup." "Dumbledore has never made a mistake." Hermione said angrily. "Oh no? Professor Quarrel ringing a bell?" Kerri asked. Melissa nodded in agreement. "How could he do this to me?" Kerri moaned. "I thought you were over Oliver." Ginny said with a strange look on her face. "I am." Kerri said shortly. "You just said he was hot!" Harry told her out loud. Well she had thought it anyways. "I did no such thing." "Too." "Not." "Shut up Dumbledore's about to speak."

Dumbledore stood up. "Welcome." The Sorting Hat ceremony took quite awhile. Oliver kept trying to catch Kerri's eye and she noticed Harry knew she noticed. They locked eyes several times. What were they going to get accomplished in the class room. He knew Kerri was angry and rightfully so but he decided to keep an eye on that situation.

It was an exhausted group that reached Gryffindor common room. Kerri roomed with Hermione, Parvatii, Lavender and Melissa. They unpacked their things with one or two marks how hot Oliver was chimed in by Parvatii and Lavender. Kerri shook her head closed the curtains around her four poster and fell asleep.