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Harry waved at her when he saw her come into the Great Hall, as he was eager to see her and to talk to her and Hermione together. This thought became unlikely, as Amanda turned left and walked to the Slytherin table. As she walked down to where Draco was sitting, Slytherin's hissed at her. Both of Draco's brutal looking friends, stood in front of her in a threatening way.

"Get out of my way, or I'll hex you again!" Amanda told the pair, who looked at Draco looking for his guidance.

"Do as she said," Draco directed the pair who unwilling moved to the side so she could pass them.

Amanda took a seat next to Draco, while all the other Slytherin's looked at her with filthy looks on there face, a particularly brutal looking guy asked, "Draco why are you letting a friend of a Potter, mudblood and a blood traitors sit at our table?"

Draco knew a serious answer wasn't the right thing to say, so he turned the whole situation into a joke, he nodded his head at Amanda, "how could you say no to that!"

"How flattering," Amanda spoke up, while a few of the guys were giving her a quick once over.

"I see your point," the same guy said, with a creepy smile on his face.

"Umm how are her looks relevant to her status," Pansy spoke up finally after noticing that her crush (Draco) was very passionate about making sure this Torque girl got to sit here, too passionate.

"Do you have a problem with me sitting here?" Amanda asked, with no idea what Pansy's response would be.

"Maybe I do, considering we don't know anything about you and your family."

Amanda stood up slamming her hands on the table, "my family!" Amanda was interrupted by Draco calmly telling her to sit down, now.

"Just so you all know, her blood is as pure as my own, and for the record Pansy did you really think I would let her sit here, next to me, if I didn't know anything about her family history," Draco stated before continuing, "now apologise!"

"I'm sorry Torque," Pansy apologised though still with a dark look deep in her brown eyes. Amanda was initially shocked; shocked that Draco had so much power over his fellow peers, they almost worshiped him.

Amanda ignored Pansy and asked Draco, "Are you going to introduce me or what?"

"Right this is Flint, Zabini, Crabbe, Goyle and Nott, every body this is Amanda Torque, the one that is in my Care of Magical Creatures class, you know the one I'm going to Australia with next week."

Harry watched on as Amanda sat at the Slytherin table, chatting and laughing along as if they were her friends. This sight made Harry's feel queasy inside, all he could think about when he saw her and Malfoy together was, what if they get together, he'll use her then lose her.

Harry desperately wanted her to like him the way he liked her, in a more then friends way. They had so such in common, well one thing, both their parents were killed by Voldemort. Harry didn't know why Voldemort killed her parents and he didn't have the balls to ask, as he was afraid she would not talk to him or curse him.

Ron interrupted his thoughts, "When are you gonna hold Quidditch trials?" He asked with a mouthful of something yellow.

"Saturday morning after breakfast," Harry replied making a mental note to put up notice on the Gryffindor notice board.

Harry put up a flyer about the Quidditch tryouts when he got back to the common room, this attracted the attention of many who turned up the following Saturday to try out.

"Okay everybody who is not in Gryffindor can you leave now!" Harry yelled, after he tried to trial a bunch of the silliest girls he had ever met, from Ravenclaw. Once those girls left he choose two beaters, Jimmy Peakes, a short but broad-chested third year and Ritchie Coote who was weedy but had a killer aim.

After he choose the Beaters he started to trial Chasers, and naturally Katie Bell instantly got put back on the team as she was easily the best flyer and had really good aim too.

But the real shock was when Amanda flew, with her natural ability and a Firebolt she was amazing, Harry couldn't take her eyes of her. Naturally she got into the team also, who then went off to get to know Katie, of whom she got along with spectacularly.

Harry blew his whistle to signal Ginny to start trying to get goals so Cormac McLaggen, who was trying out for keeper, could try and save them.

He saved the first four shots easily; Harry had all his fingers crossed that he would miss the next one. Ginny threw the quaffle, and it went right into he left goal hoop as McLaggen quickly dived to the opposite hoop as if he had been confudled, missing hopelessly.

Ron approached Harry looking as green as a pickled toad, with his Comet Two Sixty in his right hand.

"Off you go then," Harry told his loudly before whispering, "good luck."

As Ron mounted his broom, Harry heard a girl yell out 'go Ron!' He turned around expecting to see Hermione, but he instead saw Lavender cheering with her Gryffindor scarf, also giggling with Parvarti.

Ginny was scoring again for Ron's tryout; he saved one, two, three, four and five of the shots. It nearly killed Harry not being able to cheer, for his friend, but he was captain and if he cheered it would look like he was biased.

Ron came down, and dismounted his broom; Hermione ran over and gave him a hug, causing both of them to blush. Lavender who was walking in Ron's direction, swiftly turned around and headed in the opposite direction when she saw Hermione hug Ron.

Harry was happy with his new team even though his new keepers Jimmy Peakes and Ritchie Coote, were not as brilliant as Fred and George they were still pretty good. His three chasers were Ginny, Katie Bell and Amanda. Harry was greatly relieved by Ron's performance and was happy to be the team seeker of Gryffindor team with Ron as their keeper. It would have been extremely awkward if Ron had performed poorly, forcing Harry not to let him on the team.

Harry walked with Amanda back to the common room after the tryouts, discussing the following weeks.

"So you really are going to Australia tomorrow?"

"Yep, one more sleep."

"You shouldn't go because you'll get behind on your work," Harry told her trying to convince her to stay.

"Come off it Harry, you know I won't get to behind, we're back before school starts early Monday morning," Amanda explained. Harry shook on the inside, Amanda spending twenty-four hours, pretty much alone with one of his archenemies, who would surely take advantage of the situation.

'But they won't be alone, Hagrid will be there,' a little voice in Harry's head told him.

'Hagrid isn't that bright though, Malfoy could easily get away from him, or trick him into leaving them alone," another voice in his head told him.

"What you thinking about?" Amanda asked interrupting Harry's thoughts.

"Nothing," Harry responded.

"Oh please, you're thinking about something, spill."

"Okay if you must know I'm worried about you going to Australia with Malfoy," Harry confided.

"Well don't be, I can look after myself just fine, haven't you already figured that out already?"

"I did but still, Malfoy can be sly and cruel and," "Harry, I promise I'll be careful okay, now stop worrying," Amanda cut him off.

"Okay, I'll try to stop worrying."

"Good, now when I get back on Monday morning before class you have to tell me every that has been going on since I left, okay?" Amanda asked.

"Okay," Harry agreed.

Nothing interesting happened at Harry's first lesson, just a few unimportant memories, although Harry did mention Dumbledore wearing a ring that he saw Voldemort's grandfather wearing which could very well be a Horcrux.

Amanda spent the rest of that Saturday packing for her trip the following day she had plenty to do, she had to magical all her stuff so it would fit into her back pack easily. As she didn't want to be carrying a big heavy trunk around the zoo, she took extra care remembering to pack two invisibility cloaks just in case they wanted to sneak away.

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Wow at least the Quidditch teams are finally done after all these chapters! Go Amanda! Can't wait for Australia! ARGH!