Chapter 5 –I had an endured fascination

1966 / 1967

"Dear Ross,

_I'm Hogwarts Prefect! How amazing is that? My holidays have been somewhat excitable. I've had to spend time with my cousins a lot, and my sisters and brother. So not everything of that was fun, I hope yours was enjoyable, I'm sure your parents would be quite boring. I've been practising for Quidditch again, even though I am in the Quidditch team it does help to practise once in a while!

Elizabeth xo"

"Dear Elizabeth,

_Congratulations on becoming a Prefect, that's got to be exciting! I've got some news for myself, I'm Quidditch Captain for Slytherin, how amazing is that! My holidays haven't been amazing either, I've had to spend a lot of them with Dolores, ugh I just want to kill myself whenever I'm around her! Mum and dad have been boring – Dad talked about WWII and how he had to be in it. I know he's a wizard but somehow they got a hold of him. That's good – always practise, always!

Ross xo"

"Ravenclaw students, this way" Elizabeth said guiding the first year Ravenclaws to their common room. Once at their portrait, she moved her head and looked at Elizabeth.

"It has a mouth but cannot speak, it has a bed but cannot sleep" she asked Elizabeth, the heads of the houses told the password to their prefects and the head boy/girl.

"A river" she said and the portrait moved its head in acceptance and moved out of the way so the other students and Elizabeth could join them. She turned around and faced all the first years, she remembered her first year at Hogwarts; it was so scary yet thrilling. She smiled at the first years and they stopped but still looked around their common room.

"This is your common room, you can socialize with other Ravenclaw members, and you can do homework here as well. The dorm rooms are upstairs, to your left are the boys' rooms and to the right are the girls' room. You're objects are already in your rooms all you have to do is choose your bed." Elizabeth said with a smile, the first years nodded as they understood Elizabeth, a lot of them looked confused but followed their gender upstairs. Elizabeth walked out of the common room and noticed Ross outside; she smiled and gave Ross a hug.

"So Miss. Prefect" Ross said with a smirk, and Elizabeth chuckled shaking her head.

"Hey, I didn't call you Mr. Quidditch Captain last year!" Elizabeth said with a play on annoyance.

"That's because you were angry at me most of the year!" Ross said. Elizabeth sighed scratching her head. "Sorry, we need to move on from that."

"You're awfully high up from your common room!" Elizabeth said with a questioning attitude. Ross shrugged his shoulders.

"I like breaking some rules, and plus you should know me by now. We've only known each other for like five years!" Ross said with a chuckle.

"I know, I know. Now get to bed you!" Elizabeth said shaking her finger, before ducking back into the Ravenclaw common room and Ross slinking back down to the dungeons.

"Welcome to the first Quidditch match of the season. Slytherin vs. Hufflepuff! Let's get this game on! Ross Tibbs, Captain and Beater of Slytherin is off!"

"That was an amazing game Ross!" Elizabeth said with a smile running to Ross and giving him a hug. "I knew you'd win!"

Tracy and Rob were still together as they congratulated Ross for a great win, the Hufflepuffs were quite sore on their loss, Elizabeth didn't believe them for a second and just thought that they were sore losers, Elizabeth pitied them. Elizabeth smiled back at Ross.

"I'm going to get changed, meet you all back in the great hall?" Ross asked and everyone nodded, walking out of the Quidditch grounds to go for Lunch. Rita pestered them half way getting the 'scoop' on what happened. Rita was annoying Elizabeth these past few days, she didn't understand why Rita insisted on becoming her friend as they never spoke anymore. Maybe it was because Rita had no other friends, she drove them away. No one liked Rita. No one.

"Today we are going to learn the spell Expecto Patronum. Does anyone know what this does?" Professor Culwick said pacing around the room waiting for someone to put their hand up; Elizabeth looked around and sighed putting her own hand up. "Yes, Miss. Cawson"

"Expecto Patronum defends ourselves from Dementors or we can send someone a message by using our Patronus. The Patronus is different to everyone and it depends on who they are as a person" Elizabeth finished and Professor Culwick smiled at her.

"Very good Miss. Cawson, very good indeed! So everyone stand up and get out your wand" he said, everyone followed his commandments and waited for more explanation. "Now, to do this you need to think of the happiest memory you can"

Elizabeth didn't know what to think, when she's with her family, or with her friends, but no it wouldn't be any of them. It'd be when she's with Ross. There were few in the classroom who conjured it unsuccessfully. Elizabeth thought of the times where she's been the most happiest with Ross. A Husky came out of her wand, it was a whitish blue sorta colour and it walked about, snarling at a lot of people – mostly the Slytherins and barked completely at Michelles who's Patronus was a snake. Professor Culwick clapped and it shot Elizabeth out of her thoughts.

"Very good girls! Very good! Everyone else try it come on!"

"What happened next?" Tracy asked Elizabeth and Elizabeth sighed looking at her Defence Against the Dark Arts homework. Tracy's DADA class was at different times as Elizabeth as their Divination class clashes.

"Professor Culwick stopped us and asked for the rest of the class to continue" Elizabeth was silent the rest of the night; she didn't know what to think. What an odd thing to happen to Elizabeth, and especially with her patronus almost attacking Michelle's, Elizabeth didn't know what to do. She went to bed and slept for the next day was a match between Ravenclaw and Slytherin.

"Elizabeth deflected the Quaffle! Ross hits the bludger away from Chuck that is now aiming for Elizabeth!"

"Get out of the way, out of the way!" Madam Pomfrey said waving about holding some objects. "Get out of the way now!"

Everyone from the Slytherin team, Rob, Tracy and Elizabeth parted ways to look at Ross who lied on the bed in pain.

"A broken wrist, it'll heal in about six weeks" Ross shot up and looked at Madam Pomfrey in astonishment.

"SIX WEEKS! But we've got a game or two during then!" Ross said annoyed, he didn't want six weeks of not playing, he wanted six weeks of playing. "Well if you didn't shield yourself from that Bludger then we wouldn't be in this predicament now would we Mr. Tibbs" Ross groaned and Madam Pomfrey did everything she could. The Slytherin Quidditch team said their goodbyes, but Rob, Elizabeth and Tracy all stayed by Ross' side. "Rob, you're Slytherins new beater"

"Me? But I've never played Quidditch!"

"Yes you have, when I'll be at your house for the Easter holidays sometimes. Plus Elizabeth can help you. I'll still be Captain, when the next game happens I'll be telling everyone what to do. It'll be against Gryffindor and they're all weak" Ross said with a smirk, Rob nodded.

"We can practise next week" Elizabeth said and Rob nodded. Tracy and Rob said goodbye and left Elizabeth with Ross. She pulled up a chair next to his non broken wrist and held his hand.

"You should go for dinner" Ross said looking at Elizabeth, she shook her head.

"I'll go to the Kitchen in basement and get something when Madam Pomfrey kicks me out of here." The two said nothing and Madam Pomfrey didn't kick Elizabeth out, Elizabeth left when Ross was fast asleep.

"Don't think I know what you're doing" Ron said to Elizabeth as she sat in one of the chairs in the common room. Elizabeth's bags were next to her. Ron and Elizabeth were going home for Christmas, Ross' wrist had healed and he was going home as well.

"I don't know what you're talking about" Elizabeth said, acting baffled in front of her brother. She knew he was talking about Ross but didn't say anything about it.

"You and Tibbs! You two are friends!" Ron said disgusted by his sister.

"I thought you were okay with it!" Ron now got his younger sister to confess. Ron was alright with it, there was a tiny bit of him that wasn't okay with it but now, now he hated it.

"He's a Slytherin, and our enemy! How can you love someone, we all loath?" Ron asked Elizabeth who was now standing up facing her brother. She shook her head.

"It's complicated. You just don't understand" she said with a look that meant business.

"Fine then, I don't understand. But don't come crying to me when mum finds out!" Ron said with a smirk and Elizabeth shook her head matching his smirk, his face fell and his expression faded.

"She'll be happy to know you broke Great-Grandma's vase!" Elizabeth said, she knew what blackmail was, and she wasn't afraid to prove her brother wrong. He groaned in defeat and left the common room with his bag. "Stupid brother"

"Happy birthday Ross!" Elizabeth said with a smile holding out his present. Earlier that week she went to Hogsmeade with Tracy and Rob and chose a present for Ross. They stood out in the Transfiguration courtyard. Elizabeth and Ross made their birthdays May 24th since Ross' was May 23rd and Elizabeth's was May 25th. He smiled and opened his present. It was a Sneakascope, he smiled and hugged Elizabeth. "I hope you like it, it's always difficult buying for you, you know that?"

"Yeah, here's your present!" Ross said holding out a box. Elizabeth looked down and opened it with her hands. It was a necklace; one that you could open and in graved inside was a small note.

"With love, Ross"

"Now my present looks shocking! This is beautiful Ross!" Elizabeth smiled and hugged her best friend and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Your present is fine. I love it; it'll help out if Delores ever wants to find out my secrets!" Delores Tibbs was one of Ross' older sisters; she was a Slytherin like Ross but worse. She liked punishment and pain. Delores hated Elizabeth and didn't know why Ross did.

"I really love my present. I can't thank you enough!"

"Here let me help you out" Elizabeth turned around and moved her hair out of the way, it was now a dark red colour and was cut shorter. Her mother didn't approve of it, but let her keep it the way it is. Ross clipped the clasp together and her necklace was on and rested a couple of inches below her shoulders. Elizabeth looked down at her necklace and looked up at Ross and she was about to kiss him.

"Elizabeth! Come on tea is ready!" Rita yelled from the gates and Ross kissed Elizabeth's shoulder as she moved and rested her head on Ross' shoulder.

"I'll be right there!" Elizabeth yelled and Rita ran off to the Great Hall. Elizabeth sighed in annoyance and looked at Ross. "Come on, let's go and eat some dinner"

On the train ride home, Elizabeth and Ross sat in the same carriage as each other and Elizabeth watched Ross cast some spells; Elizabeth only had one more year before she could do that. It was her sixth year next and she was positively excited. Sad because it was Rob and Ross' last year but happy because she could spend it with Ross without any family members on their backs.

Look who finally updated, I'm writing the George one, just very slowly. Wait for an update soon, Melissa xx