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Amanda got up extra early on Sunday morning so she could squeeze in a quick trip to visit Bradley before she left, once she was satisfied he would be okay for one day, she left to go collect her backpack and change into her muggle clothes as she assumed they would need to go through muggle areas to get to the zoo.

She snuck into the girl's dormitories, grabbed her backpack and nearly left unnoticed.

"Amanda wait for us," Harry hissed at her, as he and Ron ran down from the boy's dormitories.

"What are you two doing up at this hour?"

"Coming to see you off, of course," Harry replied happily, as Ron mumbled something.

"Harry you shouldn't of woken Ron, look how tired he looks."

"I'm fine," Ron defended for some weird reason but Amanda suddenly figured out why. Lavender and Parvarti and just come out of the girls dormitories, "Oh how sweet of you Ron you came to see Amanda off as well."

"Any way I had better get going or I'm going to be late," Amanda swung her pack back over her shoulder and everybody shuffled out of the room and down to the front gates where they met Hagrid and Malfoy.

"I'll see you guys later okay?"

"Sure," they all replied. Amanda gave Parvarti and Lavender a hug, both of which started crying. Next Amanda gave Ron a hug and whispered in his ear, "give Lavender a hug, it'll help I promise," before giving him a swift kiss on the cheek and moving onto Harry.

"Now promise not to worry."

"I promise."

"Good, I'll see you when I get back tomorrow," she also gave him a hug and a peck on the cheek, before turning and walking out the gates, leaving Harry with a big smile on his face and his hand on his cheeks where her lips had been just moments prior.

"Jealous are you?" Amanda asked Draco as the walked a few metres behind Hagrid.

"I'm not jealous of anyone?"

"So what if I turned around, walked over to Harry, taking off my shirt and then frenched him, you wouldn't be jealous?"

Amanda laughed at the look on her boyfriends face, "that is soo not funny Amanda."

"I just wanted to prove you were jealous, because I saw you turn away when I only pecked Harry on the cheek, now that is severe jealousy, when you can't even watch your girlfriend give a tiny kiss to another guy!"

"Can we change the topic now?"

"Why? Are you jealous of Harry?"

"NO, why should I be?"

"Because he gets to spend a lot of time with me."

"Yeah but I get better use of our time together, we have more fun!"

"Is that right?"

"Any way I've spent the whole week planning how we can get away from Hagrid," Draco boasted.

"Too bad then that you would have forgotten your invisibility cloak that I gave you."

"I did not forget it."

"I bet you did."

"I'll prove it to you when we," but Draco was interrupted by Hagrid, "found it."

He was pointing to an old looking cauldron, "Now on the count of three we'll all touch it, one, two, three!"

The three of them each placed a hand on the rusty old cauldron, and after a swooping sensation their feet were back on firm ground.

Amanda stood up straight and had a look around; they seemed to be in the middle of an empty car park. Hagrid told them to follow him, they all walked out to the street where muggles were driving by in cars, and walking dogs.

"Ah Professor, sorry to break it to you but this isn't what I had in mind when you said we were going to the zoo," Malfoy remarked.

"That's 'cause we're not there yet, though we're close," Hagrid told them.

Hagrid stopped outside a post office where there was one of those photo machines, where you can choose the border and take silly pictures with your friends.

The three of them squeezed into the booth, which was a tight fit as Hagrid took up way more then half, then Hagrid put a gallon and three sickles into the machine.

"Three tickets for two of age and one underage," Hagrid spoke into the machine, which was now printing out three tickets two blue and one green.

Amanda climbed out of the machine followed by Draco and Hagrid, but they were no longer in a busy muggle street but outside a large gateway, with a short que to the desks at front. Over the huge gate way read a sign 'Grand Australian Wizarding Zoo' in big bold black letters.

Shortly they made it to the front desk and cashed their tickets, they grabbed a map and headed off. Amanda ran of squealing at the first thing she saw which was a small, black, furry, four-legged creature, which according to the sign was a Tasmanian devil. The sign detailed about how hundreds of years a witch accidentally deformed her pet and it had amazingly strong jaws, which could easily crush dragon bones. Draco looked at Amanda with raised eyebrows.

"It's still cute," Amanda told him with an innocent look on her face, "look how cute and cuddly they look."

"They can crush dragon bones, easily!"

" 'K 'k now you two no fighting, now I want you each to choose an animal and create a interestin' poster about it due next Monday."

"Hagrid can we please do a group one?"

Hagrid looked at them with a puzzled look on his face, it was really weird that one of Harry's friends would also be friends with a Malfoy; then again Malfoy seemed different this year. More mature then last, no snide comments, maybe it was because he didn't have any friends to show off in front of in his class anymore.

"Fine you can do it together, now run along we're meetin' back here at five tonight so we can go have a rest, before watching the Roo Dragons at dusk and then after some sleep we can watch them again at dawn before we go back to Hogwarts, that's when they're most fascinatin'."

Amanda and Draco quickly agreed before running of looking at more animals.

Draco was fumbling with the map, "where are these stupid Roo Dragons?"

"How would I know, why don't we just ask some one?" Amanda suggested.

"No, I can find it," Draco insisted.

Half an hour later Amanda and Draco had found the Roo Dragons, but it was a waste of time because they were asleep.

"Well that was a waste of time," Amanda stated.

"Yeah I know, why don't we just screw the map and just wonder around?"

"Yeah that sounds like a good plan, why don't we stay here for a while and look at the rest of the dragons for now," Amanda suggested.

"Okay," Draco agreed, "but then we're getting some breakfast 'cause I didn't have any thing to eat before we left."

"Neither did I, but you don't here my complaining," Amanda told Draco, "you're lucky because I think there is a dragon gift shop and a dragon cafeteria.

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Seriously what is it with guys and not asking directions? Next chapter is full of pain and art! Do you know what it is? LMAO! I DO! Draco's jealous, that's funny!