Chapter 5
"Hey dude, coming to charms?" I asked Oliver on Thursday afternoon.
"Yep, but bring your quidditch stuff and we can get to practice early, I want to discuss tactics with you before everyone else." I nodded and accioed my quidditch stuff before we strolled to class.
"Today class I am giving you the opportunity to practice any charm you have learned to date and we will try to rectify any problems that become evident. You may start charming with your partners." Professor Flitwick informed the class.
"Well this sounds fun, lets get started." I said as we got settled. All of a sudden I felt my body been lifted of my seat and float away from Oliver.
"DUDE, PUT ME DOWN!!" I said to Oliver.
"I'm not doing it!" He said as I realised he his wand was on the desk. A second later I found myself being lowered into Marcus Flints greasy lap.
"Ha ha, this class is such a good idea professor!" He said as he started groping my waist.
"Ergh, gross, let me down Flint." I said as I tried to pull his wand off him. Ewww, Flint is nasty, the thought of him just sent shivers went up and down my spine. I then felt myself levitate again and return towards my seat but I didnt stop just there, I was put down directly in Woods lap. Mmmm, much better.
"Thanks dude." I said to Oliver as I slipped out of the grasp he had on my waist and sat beside him again. Flitwick was in the process of taking points from Slytherin for inappropriate use of someone elses partner.
"No problem, that jerk, we'll get him back when Flitwick turns his back." I laughed and nodded whilst throwing a dirty look at Flint snd his nasty crew. "I think you're in need of a cheering charm after that trauma.
"Sounds good." He performed the charm and I beamed at him!
"Thanks, that was great! You know this is so awesome, I mean everything, playing quidditch and having friends and being happy, I like it!" Wood laughed and I decided to do a bit of cheering myself.
"Rictusempra!" I said, performing a ticking charm on Oliver.
"Ahh, stop it, that tickles!" He managed between his squirming and laughter, which made me laugh my arse off at him, and everyone else in the class began to watch the two of us, which included disapproving glares from Percy who had leeks growing out of his ears much to the pleasure of his Slytherin partner Ty Bremmer. I laughed at Percys appearance and was soon joined by Ty, who was actually quite the looker and not particularly one of the more annoying Slytherins. I'm sure Oliver would have joined in on the laughing at Percys expense but he was currently on the floor squirming. Oops, I thought as I removed the tickling charm so he could truly appreciate the sight of 10 inch leeks growing out of the sides of Percys head.
We were still laughing when we arrived in the great hall for a quick dinner before practice.
"How come you're still all happy, our charms are removed." Oliver questioned.
"I just happy all by myself, seriously the leeks did that all by themselves. Especially after he'd been glaring at us for having fun in a classroom!"
"Oh how appropriate, dont you think?" Oliver said as he lifted a bit of leek out of a casserole that had just appearred on the Gryffindor table. I was laughing my arse off when Percy made it to the table, leek free.
"Oi Percy, I think you're missing something, here!" I said as I chucked the cooked leek at him. He scowled at me and took 5 house points off his own freaking house for it, but now everyone who was already at dinner was in convulsions as word spreasd around the table about his leek ears! I piled some pumpkin quiche onto my plate and began to eat.
"Why is at that nearly all our meals consist of pumpkin lately?" I questioned as I drank some pumpkin juice.
"It's pumpkin season, duh!" Fred said as he arrived at the table.
"Yeah, it's the month of Halloween, best time of the year for it. Has anyone seen Hagrids patch this year, I swear there's at least one the size of that spot on Flints forehead!" George inputted before high fiving Fred and myself. Everyone was still laughing as me and Oliver left the great hall for quidditch practice, which turned out to consist of Oliver checking all his tactics and ideas with me and going over and over each of the ravenclaw team about 3 times then repeating everything when the rest of the team arrived. I had actually dosed off on Georges shoulder when he finally finished talking.
"Quick everyone, run, he's shut up!" Fred shouted. We did not need a second warning, but as I had just been asleep, I was last to get to the door, so Oliver managed to grab me.
"Hey, was it that bad?" I asked.
"I'm biased when I say yes, cos I heard it all a couple of times before this meeting. But you're doing a good job so don't worry about it, they'll do what you say, they know they're good tactics, ravenclaw wont know what hit them." I smiled at him in a comforting way, he smiled back and shrugged.
"Come on then dude, lets get back to the common room." I said walking out the door.
"Why do you call me dude, you don't call anyone else dude?" He asked
"I dunno, it just suits you I guess. Well at least it suits you when I say it I think, when the twins tried it, it sounded weird! Do I sound weird when I say it?" I asked wondering.
"No, I think you pull it off kiddo!" He said putting a playful arm around me.
"Kiddo?" I raised my eyebrow at him.
"Didn't pull it off did I?"
"It needs some work!" I laughed at him and put my arms around his waist to give him a friendly hug as we walked, just to counteract my teasing!
"Right I still have my 2 questions for today." Oliver smirked at me.
"Do you, doesn't that hour long talk count?"
"No, that was in the small print, practice and team stuff doesnt count."
"Alrighty then, shoot."
"Ok, did you go out with any of your teamates before?"
"That's barely a quidditch question DUDE!! But I guess I have to answer it. I went out with Seb Henry."
"Thought you might have, for how long and when?"
"Up until I left Luxembourg, we went out for 5 months. Hey that was 3 questions! Bomber!" I laughed at him.
"What made you think we went out?" I asked.
"Well you were the same age and got promoted together, and I doubt any guy could resist you, so I just figured!" he said smirking at me.
"I think guys do quite agood job resisting me actually." Thinking of the non existance of any sort of love life in my life before or since Seb. Guess I was lucky to get with Seb for a bit though, but that fizzled out. Soon we were back in the common room and Oliver and I began to do the charms essay that had been set earlier that day.
Before I knew it, classes were over for the week and I was on my way to the library to return some books after a huge meal in the great hall.
"Hey Jess!" I heard an unfamiliar voice behind me as I entered the library. I turned around to see non other than Ty Bremmer, weird.
"Erm, hi. Not with your Slytherin gang today?" I said even though I knew he didnt really hang around with them, although they seemed to want him to, kinda licked his arse a bit.
"Nah, they can be a bit monotonous after a while." he said walking with me as I went to replace my books on their shelves.
"More monotonous than hanging around a library?" I said smiling at him.
"Well I wasn't here for the books." He smirked and I raised an eyebrow at him. "A little bird told me you were going to be here." I stopped what I was doing and looked at him confused, why would a Slytherin want to see me, ahh probably wants to know about our team and tactics this year. "I just thought we could get to know each other."
"I thought Slytherins and Gryffindors didn't usually 'get to know' each other."
"Well I'm not a normal Slytherin and you are definitely not a normal Gryffindor." He said brushing a piece of brown hair out of my face. I raised an eyebrow at him.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Suddenly realising he could be like this just because I was a 'professional'.
"Well, I've never wanted to be erm...friends with a Gryffindor before, but you intrigue me, you seem like a cool person. "
"Ok then, friends?" I said shaking his hand with a suspicious glint in my eye.
"Great, you want me to walk you back to your house?" he offered.
"Think I can manage thanks, see you around though. Bye!" I said turning in the direction of the stairs that led towards the Gryffindor Tower. How weird, there is nothing more suspicious than a Slytherin wanting to be friends with a Gryffindor, but then again, he isn't like a Slytherin, he even stuck up for me infront of Flint the other day, and hit him over the head when he started commenting about my ass.
When I arrived at the common room everyone was lazing around the fire, so I plonked myself between George and Oliver and started staring absent mindedly at the flames dancing in the fireplace.
"Jess, earth to Jess!" I heard after realising a hand was waving infront of my face.
"Huh, yeah?" I responded, noticing that everyone was staring at me.
"You were off in another world, what were you thinking about?" Fred questioned.
"Boys." I said, surprising them with my honesty.
"Dont blame you, what with you sitting next to me and all!" George said placing an arm around me. I laughed at him and shook his arm off me.
"Why boys Jess? You like someone?" Oliver asked placing his arm where Georges just was. I turned and looked into his eyes, which kinda made me get butterflys in my stomach, then I noticed the frown on his forehead that had appeared as he looked at me.
"Erm, I dunno dude." I said after a bit. Everyone else simultaneously raised an eyebrow at me.
"So ravenclaw Saturday huh?" I said trying to change the subject. It worked and as they babbled on I began to think, do I like someone?