About ½ ways thought the summer Oliver remembered getting an owl from Katie. He sent one back and they ended up owling each other for the remainder of the holiday. They talked about everything from quidditch to school to their families Katie's father had tried to play professional after getting out of school but never ended up making it. He was happy when he found out Katie would have a good chance of making it in her second year. Oliver began telling Katie things about himself too. He was telling her things about his family who he never talked about with anyone else. He would also tell her about his dreams after Hogwarts and she would share hers with him. He loved having Katie as his one of his best friends.

Katie arrived at platform 9 ¾ the first day of her second year. She stood there looking for Oliver. In his last letter he said to wait for him and they would sit together on the way back to school. He saw him. He was saying goodbye to his mother. Katie turned to her parents and said her last goodbyes before running over to meet Oliver. He gave her a simple smile as he stepped onto the Hogwarts express. They found a compartment with what she was guessing was the rest of the Gryffindor quidditch team. She recognized the Weasley twins who were in her year and two girls who were a year older than her and she couldn't forget the captain, Oliver. Over the summer Katie's school girl crush had died down and now thought of him as her best friend.

She looked over Oliver and smiled. He was reading some book on Quidditch. No one could know her excitement for try-outs. It was her chance to show Oliver all she had done this summer. Why did she want to show off to Oliver so bad? She turned and looked back out the window at the English country side.

Olive looked up from Things Every Quidditch Captain Should Know to Katie. She was looking out the window. He was glad he got to know her this summer. He couldn't wait to see her out on the pitch. He knew she loved the game and he just wanted proof that she was good. He hoped she was good because after becoming so close to Katie he knew it would be hard to turn her down. Wait. He was putting a friend before quidditch? He thought about their relationship and he looked at her stare out the window. He couldn't remember a time where he had a better friend. There was Mac as a kid but the whole magic thing got in the way and the twins brother Percy but after becoming a prefect he became quite a prat.

If anyone looked at them they would not have said Katie and Oliver would be friends but they found something they could relate on. Katie turned from the window and saw Oliver looking at her. He held her stare for a moment before returning to his book. Any other person would get flustered if they knew Oliver wood was staring at them but Katie found it comforting.

The sweets cart just pulled up and Katie got out her sickles. "You want anything Oliver?"

"No thanks Kate" he said without looking up from his book.

Katie shrugged and walked out into the hall to grab some Bernie Bott's every flavor beans. "One box of Bernie Botts Every Flavor Beans" she handed the lady a few sickles and turned to go back into her compartment before she was stopped.

"Are you Katie Bell?"

"Yeah" She turned to an unfamiliar face

"How rude of me, I'm Cedric Diggory. I was looking for this new chaser Oliver was telling me about"

Katie laughed a little "Well I'm just a second year and I haven't even tried out yet. We'll see."

"I play for Hufflepuff. Hopefully you'll make it." He smiled before turning and walking down the hall.

Katie returned to the compartment "Do you talk about me often?"

Oliver looked up from his book "What are you talking about?"

"I just met your Quidditch buddy Cedric Diggory"

Oliver nodded "I guess your name came up. We went to see a few matches over break and we talked about our house teams and once their current keeper graduates he is in the running for captain and if you were to ask me he is the best candidate. Beside Kates, you're a good friend of mine and well I talk about my other friends. I mean aren't we talking about a friend of mine right now?"

Katie laughed slightly. "I was just a little shocked when he came up to me and knew my name. Are there any others I should know about? I mean I would rather not have random boys calling my name down the halls."

"Well I believe Cedric is my only Quidditch buddy still at Hogwarts who isn't in Gryffindor." He smiles at her as she returned to her seat across from him.

"How's your book?"

"Boring as bloody hell. I wish there were more interesting books on Quidditch. I think there are only three and I've read them all."

The twins reappeared "Word is that we're pulling into station soon."

Katie got up to leave them alone and change into her own robes.

Katie sat with her fellow 2nd years as the new 1st years were sorted. She was happy to be back at Hogwarts. She had 3 older brothers; Kevin, who was in his 7th year now, Michael, who was working on becoming an Auror, and her oldest brother Steven, who was working with wizard-muggle relations. They were all a few years apart making her the baby and the only girl. She always hung around with her older brothers. Sometimes they would try and get her away from them but before they could use magic outside of school it was difficult. Many times Katie just wanted to hang out with someone but they were the only ones around. If she had someone even close to her own age to hang out with she would have. This made her love Hogwarts. She got to be around people her own age. She looked down the table to where Oliver was sitting with the 4th years. Oliver was like her stand in brother. Someone older she could got to or even just be around. She turned back to pay attention to the sorting.

Oliver was laughing with his fellow 4th years about when he first got sorted. Oliver was an only child so he had no siblings that got sorted before him which meant the only people he could look to was his parents. His mother, witty and quick on her feet, was put into Ravenclaw. She had the knowledge that one needed to be in Ravenclaw. Oliver was not like that. He had common sense but he was lazy when it came to studying. That ruled out Ravenclaw. His father was very loyal do be his good self. He was always fair in what he did. He could not tell you a time when he was not encouraging to Oliver. He knew his father never liked when Oliver would play rough in a Quidditch match. That's where they were different. Oliver loved pushing someone around and getting dirty. He loves his job as Keeper for the team because he got to be the hero many times, making that incredible save. Since his parents were so different olive came in not knowing where he was going. He got his turn after Percy Weasley, who happened to have two parents who were in Gryffindor and 2 older brothers. He sat there several moments before he was sorted into Gryffindor. He remember his mother saying she was proud to have a son in Gryffindor.

His first year was nothing out of the ordinary. In his second year he tried out for the house team and made it. The only member from that team was the Seeker and she was now in her 7th year. He went through he year gaining more and more love for the sport. Then he came to his 3rd year when he met Katie and she made his year better. He realized his life was kind of boring until he met her. He saw Katie looking at him when she saw him look she smiled before turning back to the sorting. He smiles. He could tell this year was going to be interesting.