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We have a free period after lunch so Lorcan and I head down by the lake to join James and Fred under a beautifully secluded oak tree. "Well if it isn't Lorcanique!" James exclaims loudly as we approach. I slump down beside him, Lorcan sits across from us. "So, I hear you're a favourite for Hogwarts champion" I say airily to James. "Yeah, well I would be wouldn't I". Somehow he says this without his usual cocky arrogance; at the absence of this trait I furrow my eyebrows. "Well what with my Dad of course" says James, who's taken my furrowed eyebrows to be a look of utter confusion. "You'd think you would be a favourite too" James mumbles, seemingly to himself. "What do you mean by that" Lorcan asks before I get a chance. "Well her mom was a Tri wizard champion too". "I doubt those reporters even know I exist James. Besides their probably lamenting the fact that Victories' not in school anymore, because she would of made a simply exquisite champion". My last three words come out sounding venomously bitter and James and Lorcan stare at me questioningly, while Fred seems to look understanding. Though that's nothing new, he always seems to go through life with a look of purest understanding on his face.
"Besides" I say trying to divert the attention. "I thought youd be well up for Hogwarts champion". "Yeah well maybe I'd just like to watch it, enjoy it, I don't have to do everything my Dad does!" Fred cuts in before James gets any more fired up, "Your not thinking of entering are you Lorcan?" "I, I hadn't really thought about it you know, but... eternal glory does sound good". Now he's staring up at the trees with a dazed expression on his face. He gets like that sometimes; you can't expect none of lunas fascinating traits to rub off on him.
"What about you Fred?" I ask. "I dunno, I don't think I'd be right for it". "I heard your Dad wanted to enter it, but he wasn't old enough" says James, more to himself than anyone else; a dark expression comes over Freds face. The atmosphere seems to go right down from there, it's only Lorcan who seems unperturbed as he continues to gaze dreamily towards the sky.
After a few moments of silence a distraction is sent to us in the form of Roxanne, who swoops down easily beside us and begins speaking immediately. "So, any of you guys thinking of entering?" she asks. She doesn't wait for an answer however as she continues with "I'm gonna go for it, I'm well up for champion, what do you think?" Fred stares at her as if trying to figure out what she's talking about, it's James that says "You, champion?" with his eyebrows raised. James, like me, has never really got on with Roxanne. She scowls at him and retorts "Yeah, I think I'd make a pretty good champion". Lorcan who seems to have awoken from his dream like state is sitting up and watching interestedly.
"I suppose you're going for champion, are you James" she says angrily. "No, actually, Dominique is going for champion and shed make a damn better one than you!" "What!" I splutter at the same time as Roxanne. "Dominique wouldn't know danger if it jumped up and slapped her on her pretty little face". "Oh will you just shut up Roxanne" I say standing up. "James is just winding you up" and with that I stride away haughtily.
Roxanne doesn't know it but she's just given me one more incentive to enter.
A/N: I know I've made Roxanne kind of a bitch but its necessary for the storey believe me, short chapter I know but please review!
Tomorrows chapter things start to heat up, it will be called The Hogwarts School bus.