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Within only ten minutes of arriving back at the common room Amanda ran in the room and up to her dormitory, where Hermione was practising unsuccessfully to make her pencil case fly with out speaking. Amanda just grabbed her broom from inside her trunk and ran back out of the common room to meet Draco.

When they finally arrived at the Quidditch pitch, they both mounted their Firebolts. After years of whining Lucius finally gave in and brought his son a Firebolt, mainly because his son kept losing to Gryffindor.

"I've got to practise so bad, if we lose I'll be in heaps of trouble and I won't even be able to blame it on my broom!"

"Which is why I'm going to help you, but today is just for fun," she told him before flying off leaving, Draco behind.

Amanda had been practising many tricks in the weeks prior to her parents death, including flying a broom while standing up and flying while hanging beneath it or doing other acrobatic moves. She put in many hours of practise and hoped it would improve her game; sure being able to stand up will some how help you. Even if it didn't improve her game Amanda believed surely it would be handy in an emergency, like if you lost balance and fell, it would be handy if you caught your broom handle and could steer without crashing.

Draco caught up to her and tapped her on the shoulder, "you're it," before speeding off. Amanda smiled and sped after him, it didn't take to long for her to catch up to him.

"If you push your legs back further, you'll be able to lean further forward and go faster." Amanda told him, he did as she said and did a lap of the pitch, "wow, that was pretty cool, I feel invincible."

"Not for long!" Amanda shouted as she sped off as fast as she could, she could see Draco behind her, trying harder to lean forward more with out losing his balance, which he failed. Draco lost his balance and was hanging onto his broom with only one hand, while it was flying around in an uncontrollable manner.

Amanda flew beneath him and he dropped onto the back of her broom, "hold on!" Amanda shouted at him, as she reached up to grab his Firebolt, she gripped it with two hands and pulled herself up and swung a leg over.

Back on the ground five minutes later Draco told her, "That's pretty creepy, just jumping from one broom to another."

"Lucky though because if you crashed your new Firebolt, your dad would defiantly kill you."

"I wouldn't doubt that for a second."

"Anyway I had better go meet up with Harry, I'll see you after break at Care of Magical Creatures," she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek and headed of to the castle with her broom over her shoulder.

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"Harry!" Ron hissed from the windowsill.

"What?" Harry asked.

"I swear I just saw Amanda kiss Malfoy!"

"What? On the lips?"

"No, on the cheek," Ron whispered back, so nobody would know he was spying on people.

"Did it seem like a more then friends kiss?" Harry asked trying to keep the curiosity out of his voice.

"Could have been, but then again what would I know? It isn't exactly my area of expertise," Ron added glumly.

They waited for Hermione to get back from Advance Muggle Studies before heading of to break. (Hermione was doing normal Muggle studies as well as advance muggle studies)

Harry had no intention of telling Hermione that he had a crush on Amanda, or that Ron saw Amanda give Malfoy a kiss on the cheek, but it was to late to tell Ron that as he was already telling her about how he saw Amanda kiss Malfoy.

Hermione, as Harry had expected, blew the whole thing out of proportion, ranting on about how she and Malfoy must be secret lovers or something. Thankfully Ron was on Harry's side, saying that they were just friends and it was just a friendly kiss on the cheek.

Amanda sat down next to them and grabbed an apple out of the bowl, "why do I always get the feeling people have nothing better to gossip about around here apart from me."

Ron, Harry and Hermione looked at each other for a few seconds, until Harry decided to prove his point.

"Hey Amanda we were just wondering, well debating, you don't have a boyfriend at the moment do you?"

"No, why?" Amanda asked with a puzzled look on her face.

"Ohh you know, just a rumour that's going around," Harry lied, while blushing slightly.

Amanda knowing Harry was lying asked, "and who am I rumoured to be dating exactly?"

"Umm," Harry mumbled, "Draco Malfoy."

Amanda laughed, "Wait you thought I was dating Malfoy?"

"Well I didn't but others did," Harry defended himself.

"Yeah well he isn't exactly my type, and I couldn't imagine what my father would say if I dated him."

"What is your type? And why wouldn't your father like you dating him? Did he know the Malfoy's?"

"The Malfoy's are rather well known at Dumstrung, it was a huge shock for the school when Lucius' son wasn't enrolled there, so pretty everybody knew or knew of the Malfoys including my father," Amanda explained, lying through her teeth.

Amanda quickly noticed the look on Harry's face, which prompted her to answer the first part of the question, "Umm my type, well taller then me, has to have some sense of humour, has to be brave, all in all, a decent wizard who can protect me."

Harry's face dropped slightly, Amanda was easily an inch then he was, there for meaning he wasn't her type, even though he was brave and considered his sense of humour to be pretty good.

"I don't mean to be nosey," Hermione injected, "but Malfoy is an inch taller then you at least, he even has a sense of humour, even if it is a sick one, and I guess he could be considered brave depending on who you ask."

"What are you implying? That I am with Draco or that I should be?"

"Well I think that you're already dating him!"

"Why is that Hermione?"

"Well you spend all your free time with him, you're nearly in every class with him and you sit next to him."

"Wow you put a lot of though into this, but did you ever consider that you do all those things Hermione with Harry and Ron, and nobody uses it as an excuse to say you're dating, now do they?"

Hermione was stuck for words, Amanda still continued, "but then again nobody would think that, as now e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y knows about your little 'chickening out incident' with Krum. You know his life was hell for the next few weeks, it was the first time King Devirginator failed."

"The Devirginator?" Hermione asked in a loud voice, bordering on shouting.

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What the hell are they? Do you want to know? Well you'll have to keep reading and find out next chapter won't you? LOL, the next chapter is really cool!