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Amanda made it to Gryffindor Tower just a few minutes before the Quidditch players and spectators did. People began piling as the room, so Amanda took another swig of her Strengthening Potion, and sympathy came from all directions.
"Are you okay?"
"I hope your lip heals."
"Feel better soon."
"We missed you."
"Thanks to Hermione we haven't had any time to get to know you."
"Oww your eye looks nasty."
"I was looking forward to meeting you, but not under these circumstances."
Amanda just acted like she had to force a smile and say, "I'm fine." But inside she was beaming, 'wow a lot of people seemed to miss her, although most of them didn't even seem to know her.' Most of the people expressing their sympathy, Amanda had not even met before.
"Hi Ginny, hi Ron, where's Harry?"
"He was just packing away the gear, making sure it is all neat, he's Quidditch captain you know."
"Cool, hi Harry," Amanda greeted Harry as e came into the room
Amanda turned around to ask Ginny if she played but she had disappeared.
"So how do they choose Quidditch teams at this school?"
"You just have to give your name your head of house, then the list is given to the Quidditch Captain, which in this case is me," Harry told her proudly.
"How do you choose players?"
"We have trials, why do you want to join the team?"
"It might have crossed my mind."
"What position?"
"Preferable chaser."
"Good we need some chasers and beaters."
"What positions do you two play?"
"I'm the seeker and Ron's our keeper."
The Quidditch conversation went on for a while until Ginny walked past.
"Hey Ginny where are you going?" Amanda asked Ginny.
"Down to the Great Hall to grab some dinner, wanna join me?"
"Sure," Amanda replied, "See you guys later okay?"
"Yeah see ya."
On the walk to the Great Hall the pair had a little chat.
"Dumbledore mentioned some special circumstances, care to explain?"
"I really don't want to talk about it, don't you have some exciting stories to tell anyway? Like when you were in the chamber of secrets."
"I don't really know what happened considering I was unconscious most of the time, but Harry told me that when he stabbed the diary it killed Voldemort's memory, like the diary was part of him or something."
"Now that is a pretty cool story?" Amanda said trying not to sound too excited by this news. That means out of the seven horcruxes at least four have already been destroyed, Hufflepuff's cup, Ravenclaw's recipe for the soul burning potion and Riddle's diary. Although she only had to find two more to find, as she was pretty sure she had seen Dumbledore wearing a Slytherin's famous black ring, which had belonged to Voldemort's grand father, surely Voldemort would turn it into a horcrux as it would have great sentimental value to him.
She had a feeling that Dumbledore knew about the Horcruxes (hence the ring), and hoped desperately to find out which ones he had found and destroyed. Amanda was pleased as knew she had found the more difficult ones, as it was believed that nothing of Ravenclaw's or Gryffindor's was still in existence today.
At the Great Hall Ginny introduced Amanda to a round face boy, by the name of Neville Longbottom, Amanda instantly recognised the name. The Longbottoms were tortured into insanity by Draco's favourite aunt, Auntie Bellatrix.
"Nice to meet you Neville, your in Gryffindor?" She asked as she took a seat next to him.
"Yeah I am."
"What is your favourite subject?"
"Herbology, what's yours?"
"Care of Magical Creatures, I find the animals are really interesting fascinating. At my old school, I did advance animal telepathy."
Neville smiled to himself, if she liked interesting creatures she'll love classes with Hagrid.
"Wow, so you can read animals minds? What school did you go to?"
"Yeah sometimes, and my old school is far away and has very few students, a hundred at max!" With this Amanda put some roast potato in her mouth, which tasted really good, she made a mental note to congratulate the house elves tomorrow.
"Hey are you guys doing Care of Magical Creatures in the morning tomorrow?"
Ginny and Neville both shook their heads, "I don't think any sixth year Gryffindors students are taking it, actually I don't think any sixth year students are taking it."
"Shame it is a good subject!"
"Yeah I like it but some of the animals are a bit to wild for my liking."
"No way the wilder the better!" She told him as she scooped another couple of potatoes out of the bowl and onto her plate.
"Do you have any cool animal stories?"
"I don't but once Malfoy got hurt by a hippogriff, that was pretty cool!"
"Was he sulking for days?"
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"I'm good at reading personalities," Amanda lied.
"He even used it as an excuse not to play Quidditch, because the weather was crappy."
"Speaking of Quidditch, do you play?"
"I don't, but Ginny does."
"I didn't know that Ginny, do you really?"
"Yeah I'm a Chaser."
"Same, though I've never played in a proper game before, my school wasn't really into Quidditch, even if the were my dad wouldn't of let me he said it was a waste of time."
"Your dad sounds really mean, not letting you play Quidditch."
"He was sometimes."
"What do you mean was?"
"I moved out a few months ago and we don't talk anymore," Amanda told them truth, even if she did stretch it a little bit. Technically she did stop talking to him and she did recently move out, she just forgot to tell them her father was dead.
"I don't talk to my parents much anymore either," Neville whispered, causing Ginny to listen as Neville rarely spoke of his parents.
"Why?" Amanda asked even though she already knew the answer, she just wanted to know if he would open up to nearly a complete stranger.
"Well they don't even know who I am because they lost their minds after being tortured by one of You Know Who's supporters." Tears were forming in his eyes but the didn't fall.
"Oh Neville that is dreadful!"
There was a bit of chitchat then Amanda left before the others, "I'm going to bed to get some rest before tomorrow."
"It's not even eight!"
"Well I'll most likely read for a couple of hours."
"Okay we'll see ya tomorrow."
"Okay see you tomorrow."
Amanda found her way back to Gryffindor to where she made her way back to the same bedroom. She grabbed a few books and headed back down to the Common Room. Neville and Ginny came back shortly and went to their rooms. While Amanda stayed up, reading until ten. Amanda made her way to the showers before going to bed, where she felt her bracelet heat up. She pulled her arm out from under the covers and read the message, 'sweet dreams.' She quickly sent a reply, 'thanks, love you.'
Amanda emptied her mind before sleeping, you never know who is trying to see inside your head.
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Quidditch talk, poor Neville. Amanda is pretty unusual, what are your thoughts on her? Like or Hate? Don't worry she won't be alone in CofMC.
OMG she knows about the horcrux's, sorry if that bit was confusing.
Hufflepuff's cup – destroyed by Amanda
Ravenclaw's recipe - destroyed by Amanda
Riddle's diary - destroyed by Dumbledore
Slytherin's black ring- destroyed by Dumbledore
Leaving 3 horcrux's remaining! Better?