Sorry it has been so long since I updated last but I had work experience and I went away to a horse show for the whole weekend!
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Harry was absolutely beaming when he saw Amanda approach their table, 'she is finally back' he thought. It had felt weird just having Ron and Hermione to hang around with again, not bad weird just different.
Amanda took a seat before she took off her backpack and pulled out the toy dragons one by one, so she could enlarge them back to their original size before pulling them out of the bag. She gave a dragon to each Harry, who blushed, Ron, who thanked her, Ginny who thanked her and gave he a hug, Lavender, Parvarti, both of which started thanked her then started giggling saying how cute they were, and one to Neville, who shyly thanked her.
Hermione, who was sitting between Neville and Harry, felt very left out as everyone but herself got a present.
"Hey when does Quidditch start?" Amanda asked as she settled in and ate some breakfast.
Harry answered, "there's a game this weekend but it's Slytherin vs. Ravenclaw, we don't have a match till the following week when we verse Hufflepuff."
"Should we win against Hufflepuff?" Amanda asked knowing full well Hufflepuff was a push over for every house.
"We should win but you never know over half our team is new, we'll have to wait and see!"
The rest of the week passed smoothly, everybody was excited that Quidditch was starting. The first game of the season had a large turn out including people from Hufflepuff and Gryffindor, supporting Ravenclaw of course.
Ginny went to the game with her boyfriend Dean to support Ravenclaw, while Ron and Harry went to visit Hagrid as they hadn't had a real conversation since school had gotten back. Hermione couldn't come as she still had lots of homework to do, as she still had detentions till the following night, which would be her last one.
Amanda went to the Slytherin stands after sneaking into the change rooms under her invisibility cloak to give her boyfriend a quick pep talk.
Harry and Ron knocked on Hagrid's door, who quickly answered,
"'Arry, Ron, it's good to see ya. Where's 'Ermione?" He asked.
"She had to catch up on some homework," Harry told him, which was the understatement of the centaury.
"Are ya gonna let us in?" Ron rudely injected.
"'Course come in."
The pair took a seat as Hagrid poured them each a hot drink and offered them some of his rock cakes, which we literally as hard as rocks.
"Ya shodda brought ya friend 'Manda down, she's very nice."
"I invited her but she wanted to go watch the Slytherin-Ravenclaw game for some reason!"
"Ohh, I wonder why that is?" Hagrid asked as he quickly looked away.
"You know don't you? What is it?"
"Maybe they're friends," Hagrid suggested in a voice that let on that he was in belief of that idea.
"You're not a very good liar Hagrid, why won't you tell us? What did you find out in Australia? Are they dating?"
Hagrid started laughing at the last question, "what's so funny?" Harry asked rather loudly.
"It's just that I'm positive they're not dating!"
"How can you be positive?"
"How about if I ask you some thing, what is the one thing that would stop you dating a pretty girl like Amanda?"
"Umm the only reason I wouldn't date someone is if they're a Death Eater or evil, or if I was related," Harry paused in realisation before shouting, "THEY'RE RELATED!"
"But don't tell her I told you, I promised I wouldn't," Hagrid pleaded.
"Don't worry I won't tell her," Harry promised.
"Goo," Hagrid started but was interrupted by a very loud noise coming from the Quidditch stadium.
"Blimey, someone must have one," Ron stated with an expression of shock.
"Surely not, it only started a few minutes ago, nobody could have caught the snitch yet, the seekers are Malfoy and Michael Corner and they both suck."
But Harry turned out to be wrong as moments later the Slytherin team emerged surrounded by a bunch of girls, all wanting a piece of the winning Quidditch team, particularly the teams seeker who caught the Snitch in a near record time of four minutes and twelve seconds, which is the second fastest time in Hogwarts history.
Harry and Ron waited for the crowd to die down, before heading back to the castle, when they got near the common room they took a well known short cut to save time and stumbled across Ginny who was very passionately kissing Dean, who didn't seem to mind at all (well how many teenage guys would?). Dean put his hand under her shirt and ran his hand up her bare back, not noticing Harry and Ron standing there. Ginny unbuttoned the first few buttons on Dean's shirt before Ron shouted, "Ginny."
The pair pulled apart, Dean wiped his mouth with his sleeve as if to hid behind his sleeve so he wouldn't get in trouble. Ginny on the other hand held her ground with her hands on her hips.
"Yes Ronald."
"You had better stop doing that in public, or everybody will start calling you a slut!"
"Well before you barged in this was a private corridor, wasn't it Dean?"
Dean avoided Ginny's by looking at his feet in a cowardice way.
"You're just jealous," Ginny continued.
"Jealous of what?" Ron asked.
"Jealous because everybody but you, has been kissed. Harry kissed Cho, Hermione kissed Krum, and even Neville has kissed someone. The best kiss you ever had would've been from one of our aunts!"
"Just-because-I-don't-do-it-in-public," Ron got out defensively in one breath.
Ginny simply laughed and dragged Dean past them, "come on Dean lets go find somewhere PRIVATE!"
Dean reluctantly followed her, while shooting apologetic looks to both Harry and Ron, who looked furious.
Nothing exciting happened on Sunday except Hermione finally had her last detention with McGonagall. Although on the Monday Draco had news to tell Amanda in Care of Magical Creatures, while they were sketching pictures of a Margatekingston's life cycle, from a dusty library book on Australian creatures.
"I got a letter from my dad last night," Draco told her casually as Hagrid went inside his hut to make himself a drink.
"Really, what did it say?"
"First he congratulated me on my Quidditch win," Draco said slowly.
"Which would be a first, Lucius Malfoy actually acknowledging his sons achievements."
"Tell me about it, anyway then he said I have to come home this weekend for a family issue."
"What family issue?" Amanda asked with eyebrows raised.
"That's the point, I have no idea! I'm pretty sure nobody has died, so I don't have a clue why I have to go back. Oh god maybe he knows about my tattoo!"
"Drake, come on listen to yourself, how could your dad know about your tattoo?"
"I dunno, but what if he finds?"
"Just be careful, if he sees it run as fast as you can and I'll meet you at my house although don't try get in with out me or you'll be cut in half or something."
"Gee how comforting," Draco told her sarcastically.
"Hey would I let anything happen to you? Don't I always watch your back, and you watch mine?"
"Yeah you do," Draco smiled, "but I might just take you up on that offer to run away from my dad and stay at your place."
Amanda punched his shoulder lightly, "no you won't, anyway that would look a bit suspicious if you ran away and stayed and Torque Estate wouldn't it?"
"Nah 'cause we're friends!"
Amanda lent over and whispered into Draco's ear, "I would give you a kiss but I've got a feeling Harry has heard the 'we're cousins theory, and that would look a bit wrong!"
Amanda and Draco waited all week for Friday night to come so they could find why Lucius desperately wanted to talk to Draco. What could be so important he couldn't just write it in a letter? Draco promised that as soon as he found out he would send her a message telling her about it.
On Friday they both a had free last session so they went to Draco's study so they could finish all their homework, in case Draco didn't have time to do any when he got home. They were in there for hours before they completed all their homework; after all the homework was done they left the study and went back into the bedroom to finish packing. They still had twenty minutes before Lucius was arriving to collect Draco and it takes nearly fifteen minutes to go from the Slytherin common room to the Entrance Hall, so after throwing a few more things into his trunk the pair left and made there way to the Entrance Hall.
"When will you be back?" Amanda asked even though she already knew the answer.
"You know I'm not sure, but probably Sunday."
"Promise to tell why you had go as soon as you can?"
"You know I will."
"Be careful," Amanda warned, as she gave his a light kiss.
"I will, I promise," he told her as he kissed her forehead, "don't worry about me, I've lived with him my entire life."
Amanda smiled and slid a small flask into his pocket, "a drop of this will knock anyone or anything unconscious for at least an hour."
She also pulled out a larger flask and gave it to him, "strengthening potion."
"Thanks, but I won't need it, any way I'll see you later my dad'll be here by now, I've gotta go down and see Hagrid so he can unlock the gate. I'll see you when I get back."
He gave her another kiss on the forehead before turning to leave, but Amanda grabbed his wrist and he spun around to see what she wanted. Amanda kissed him with her hands around his neck, when they pulled apart Draco saw the look in her eyes. She was scared.
"Nothing's going to happen, Mandy."
"I know but I've got a bad feeling about this, something isn't right."
"Love you," he told as he walked out the big oak doors. "I love you too," she whispered as a single tear fell down her cheek. She stood in that hall for ten minutes, before going to visit Bradley, her other favourite person in this world.
After getting Hagrid, Draco marched to the gate with the games keeper. Lucius was waiting when Draco came through the gates, eyeing Hagrid with disgust.
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Argh, what does he want to talk about?