"hey natalie wait up." It was hermine.
"Oh hi hermine whats up." Natalie said smiling too the puffy haired girl.
"Nothing much i just need too ask you a question." hermine said.
"Sure what is it." Natalie said giving hermine her full attention. Hermine was always fond of Natalie. They seemed to have similar interest and were both study buddies. They tended to meet up in the liabries after school. Herine was a very bright child. Muggleborn she had something to prove too the purebloods here. That a muggle born can be just as good as a pureblood. that's why she was so concentrated on her studies. but natalie wished that she would lighten up a little bit from time to time too have some real fun.
"What time does the libray usually close on fridays." hermine asked.
"Please tell me you're not going to pull another all nighter again." natalie added.
"No well not this time at least. my friends and i need to get our hands on a book. a very specific one at that and it might take a while for us too find it." hermide explained.
"Oh ok then. well one night i was studying for exams and they started closing up thirty minutes before lights out. so im guessing around nine or such." natalie said.
"Nine oclock. perfect thank you so much natalie hope to catch you at the quittach game after school." hermine said.
"Oh thats right i competly forgot this is harrys first game is it not." natalie laughed.
"thats right so i guess you know who to root for. we are going too cream slytherin." hermione said. she had a slight vendetta against the house. but hey who didn't.
"Yeah well i'll see you there then ok." natalie said.
"yeah thanks you so much by the way." hermione said taking her leave back to where she came from.
"I can't believe i forgot about the quidditch game. Oh man it's going to be so exciting. Harry potter as the seeker. the youngest seeker ever. This is going to be a game too remember." natalie laughed. She met up with luna at the stadium entrance where the ravenclaws were supposed to be seated. It was the perfect type of weather for a game of quidditch. luna and natalie seated themselves and watched the teams fly out.
"Wooo go gryffindor." natalie shouted.
"You're not rooting for slytherin." luna asked.
"Naw i mean they are good but with harry potter as the seeker they don't stand a chance." Natalie said flatly.
"well i thought since you and malfoy are so close…"
"Draco doesn't control my life i can choose whatever team i wish to root for." Natalie interrupted her.
"Ok then sorry." luna said.
"Sorry its just lately a lot of people have been getting onto me for being friends with draco. And also for plainly just existing." natalie said.
"What do they do." luna asked.
"well this girl pansy she is in slytherin apparently she has a major crush on draco and thinks i'm in her way somehow. anyway she and a couple of her friends have been picking on me for a while and i'm just kinda sick of it."
"You should tell a teacher." luna said.
"what are they going to do. they will know i snitched and it will just get worst." Natalie said.
"what if i told a teacher." luna offered.
"I don't want you to get involved but thanks for offering." natalie said. "come on let's just watch the game ok." natalie said turning her attention back to the game. harry potter was whizzing through the air searching endlessly for the golden snitch the game wouldn't end until he found it or until the other seeker caught it. One of the slytherin seekers came up behind harry and tried to knock him off his broom. thankfully he managed to lose him in the air. then a very strange thing happened. harry's broom began trying to knock him off.
"What is happening?" Luna asked. Natalie had no idea but whatever it was it couldn't be good.
"Someones cursed his broom stick." Natalie said getting out of her seat.
"How can you tell." Luna asked.
"Intuition." Natalie said simply. She looked around the stadium scanning the faces trying to find someone who was muttering under their breath not breaking their gaze from harry.
Suddenly screams could be heard from the teachers stand. A small fire had started but was quickly put out. When natalie looked back harry was on his broom again.
"That was odd," natalie said.
"Yes indeed," luna said. Harry was back on his broom zooming thru the air again.
After a while harry seemed to leap off his broom and fell down to the ground. He shook himself a bit getting the dirt off him and spit up the golden snitch.
"And that's 150 points to gryffindor. Gryffindor wins." the announcer said. The fans cheered. Everyone stood up and applauded the win but the slytherins who sat disappointed at their defeated.
The stands cleared out and everyone went back to their normal schedule. Draco and Natalie sat in silence in potions class finishing their final. The school year was almost over. They had only two weeks left. Potions class was Natalie's last final. Natalie and Hermione both finished at the same time and both tied for first. They shook hands as they placed their finals in the basket and were dismissed from the classroom. Natalie waved goodbye to draco as she left with hermine.
"I guess those all nighters really helped," natalie said brushing her hair back.
"I am glad we both tied really you were an amazing study partner," hermine said.
"Next year we should continue this partnership," natalie said.
"I agree." they shook hands once more.
"Well I have to wait until Harry and Ron are done. We were going to go meet up with hagrid after the final. He is still pretty upset his dragon was taken away from him. We were going to go comfort him,"
"Oh yeah I heard about that. I am so sorry. Look I know it was a real crappy move on my part. I should have just left you guys alone. I didn't mean to get you three in trouble. Let alone hagrid," she apologized.
"Its not your fault. I know draco probably dragged you out of bed in order to come find us," hermine said.
"Actually we found you completly on accident. Draco didn't even notice you guys until you left the castle. I tried to talk him out of it but he is pretty stubborn. He meant well I guess. Just trying to do the right thing." she said. Hermine nodded her head. "I have to go finish packing. I will see you at closing ceramony okay." she said walking back to her dorm.
Natalie came across the ravenclaw entrance. The painting woman turned to her and smiled.
"My my Natalie already done with your potions exam. That was the last one if I am correct. How did it go?" she said excitly. Natalie and the painted woman had become amazing friends over the year. Natalie always had trouble fiquring out the password. Unlike most houses the ravenclaws password was a differnt riddle each time you entered. Natalie was always terrible with riddles but the painted woman always would give her hints.
"Wonderfully. Hermine and I tied for first again. I think I got a perfect score. I will know next week I guess," she shuffled her feet.
"Amazing. I suppose you would like to go pack. Okay lets see here. A new riddle. Oh I have one. What gets wetter the more it dries?" she asked. Natalies eyes widened.
"I actually know this one. I read it on a candy wrapper on halloween. Its a towel right?" she said hopefully.
"You have come a long way Miss Jacobs. You may enter." she said opening the door. Natlie jumped up and down at her succes. She skipped into the commen room where the other ravenclaws that had already finished their exams were reading, drawing, writing, practing their music, or any other activity really.
Natalie ran up the stairs to her room and carefully opened the door. Her cat vannessa quickly rushed up to her. She greeted her by rubbing up against her pant leg. Natalie picked up Vannessa and brushed her head till she felt the vibrartions of the purring against her chest in which she switched to the ears. She began to sway around the room cradiling her in her arms.
"Oh this has been the best year ever," natalie said doing a quick spin. "I have learned so much. So much more than I could have imagined. I think I am a lot better at magic and such than I am at math and science. I will probably have to take them when I go back," she said sitting on her bed. "I don't want to go back to that awful place. It smells like barf and tears there. I hardly ever get any food. The mistress is a complete lunatic. I can't go back. Not now. Not when I am finally happy. I want to stay here," she said playing with vannessas paw. "I know you like it here to. They have lots of good cat food and I know you have made special friends with filches cat."
Natalie sighed as vannessa fell asleep in her arms. "I have made some wonderful friends here to. Hermine and I have become awesome friends. She promised to write to me over the summer. Luna and I have become complete best friends. She said I could come visit her during the summer. I can't wait to meet her father. She is so cool," natalie paused.
"Draco...hmmph. Draco has been the bestest friend anyone could ask for. He really seems to get me. I just feel better around him you know. I hope he will write to me. I haven't given my adress to him yet. I really hate bringing up the orphanage around him. I hate talking about it. I know everyone here thinks I am a total freak. I hear what Dracos friends tell him about me. I wonder what he thinks when he hears them. Is he just being nice to me?" she asked her cat. She only responded with a quite meow. Natalie giggled at her cat. She lifted her locket and inspected it for a moment. She opened it revealing the moving picture of Draco and her on the first day of school. She smiled remembering when he gave it to her.
"You know I gave Draco a trinket that let him see the happiest moment in his life. He said he saw a birthday he had with his parents. Lucky. I would love to relive the happiest moment of my life over and over again. Though I can't quite place what that would be. I have so many happy memories right now. I can't pick one," natalie paused as vannessa leapt off her lap to go snuggle with her pillow instead.
"I hope he writes," natalie said quickly writing the orpahanges adress on the paper next to her folding it neatly and placing it in her pocket. Natalie got changed in her more casual clothes. She was now offically done with school. They still had a week left to get their grades and pack for home. Though for natalie this place was home.