Its been 3 years since Professor Dumbledor told Ava about the Profecy. Through the summer Ava felt herself being watched. Ava knew that she was now being watched over by Aurors.
Ava first figured out that she was being followed around was when she was walking down her street from the mall, she felt someone following her, and when she looked behind her, there he was, walking behind her. He wasn't very close to her, and he was wearing normal muggle clothes. Though Ava could tell that he was a wizard. He looked interested in everything around him, and she could see a bit of his wand poking through his jacket.
She smiled to herself and continued walking to her house. When she got inside, she went upstairs and peeked out her window. She saw another man, a different one, he was casually walking around her street, he as well looked interested in the muggle society.
Ava sat on her bed and looked through her letters she got over the past two months. She looked over the dozens of letters from Donna, telling her all about the latest gossip and telling her how much she missed her and asking how her parents were. She got a few from Elaine and Hermione, she got many from Mary and Stacey and Hannah Abott who she recently became friends with over the past year.
Surprisingly she even got a couple of letters from Seamus, Ben and Dean. She got a howler from Seamus, who said that he wanted to try out a howler on her to see if it worked, and she laughed when it died halfway. Then she sent him another howler explaining to him how to do it correctly, and she wanted to show off a bit.
Ava got off the bed and walked over to her desk, laying there was the daily prophet, she picked it up and sat back down on her bed. She looked through the pages. More muggles were being killed everyday, she was afraid for her parents.
She looked up from the paper when she heard the front door open.
" Honey were home!" her mom yelled up the stairs. Ava ran downstairs to greet her parents. Both her parents arms were loaded with groceries, Ava took a few bags from their hands and put them in the kitchen. " Thanks sweetheart" her dad said and smiled at her. " We got you a few things from Diagon Alley" her mother said.
" Mom you know I was going to do that in a few days, you didn't have to do that" Ava said, although she was very grateful.
" I know but we are so proud of you, and I want to help you out as much as I can before you leave to go back to school" her mother said
Ava smiled " Thanks mom" she said. Her mom gestured her into the living room. " Come see what we got you, we went to the mall before and got you some new clothes and bathing suits for this year at all your favourite stores."
Ava was shocked, her parents have never been so generous before. Yes they get her the stuff she needs and usually they go shopping with her, but they have never bought her so many things for her. She looked on the couch and there were dozens of bags laying all over the ground and couch.
" Okay, whats the catch?" Ava asked. Her parent looked confused " What catch? Why do you think there would be a catch?" they asked.
" You have never bought so many things for me before, I mean this is far to much, you guys didn't have to by all this stuff for me" she said.
" Well you are our daughter, and we love you, its alright to treat your child once in a while" her mother said and kissed her head.
Ava grinned at them, she loved her parents so much and she would do anything to keep them out of harms way from Voldemort.
Her parents showed her all the new things they got her, she had to admit, her mom had good taste in clothes, and bought her all the stuff she loved. They went to Diagon alley and bought her books from her favourite book store that she could read throughout the year. Ava laughed to herself, it was like Christmas all over again.
Once they were done, her mother gestured for her to sit on the couch with them. Ava snuggled between them. Her mother took her hand and looked at her.
" Honey, you know that we are always here for you, right?" she said. Ava was confused. " Yes, of course" she said.
" We know that the years coming up, are going to be difficult years for you" her father said. Then it finally occurred to Ava, they were talking about the prophecy, that's why they bought her all those things, they wanted to make her feel better.
Ava looked down at her feet, she was a little embarrassed that her parents knew that she was suppose to have the dark lords baby.
" We just talked to the man watching you outside" Her father continued, " you are being protected by those men , and so are we, so we don't want you to worry about us, right now we just want you to worry about you" he said.
Ava nodded.
" does any of your friends know?" her mother asked.
" Only Donna knows…. And Harry" Ava said. Dumbledore told Harry about the Prophecy in their 5th year, lets just say Harry was more than shocked that one of his friends was in danger, but he promised that he wouldn't tell anyone else until Ava was ready.
" You said that you are very close with your friends, right?" her mother asked.
Ava nodded " do you think it's the right time to tell them?" she asked.
" Only, you would know" her mother said. " If they were truly your friends, they wouldn't judge you and they would stick by your side until the very end" she said. " if your not ready to tell them, then that's perfectly fine, but if they are as close to you as you always say they are, then I think that they deserve to hear the truth" her mother smiled at her.
...
Later that night, Ava lay in bed staring at the ceiling, she thought about what her mother had said. Did her friends deserve to know? Elaine would most likely tell the whole school, Mary and Stacey wouldn't tell, but would they be supportive? How about Seamus,Ben, Tyler and Dean, how would they react. All these questions were burning inside her head. Seamus believed her when she told him how Draco was torturing her. Would he believe her this time. She couldn't think of any reason why he wouldn't believe her. Maybe she should owl Donna and ask her opinon.
" uuhhhh" she said out loud, she was getting so confused with all these thoughts, Ava decided that she would tell her friends when she got to school, maybe halfway through the year, maybe se can tell Elaine near the end of the year. She groaned and turned over and went to sleep.
...
Ava sat by the window in their compartment on the train, she was silently listening to Donna, Elaine and Mary talk about what happened over the summer. Seamus, Tyler, Dean and Ben were sitting in the corner playing with their cards. Ava couldn't believe it, they were 16 and they were still playing with their little chocolate frog cards. Ava looked out the window.
" Hey Ava! Why so quiet over there?" Seamus said loudly. Ava looked up and he smiled at her. She tried her best not to blush, every year he just kept getting cuter.
" Just trying to block out your noise, so I can listen to Donna, Elaine and Mary" she said.
He put on a fake hurt face. " Ouch Ava, I know you don't really mean that" he said.
" oh really, and how would you know that I don't mean it?" she replied sarcastically, she tried her best not to show a grin.
" Because you love listening to my voice, you should be use to it by now, I delt with me for about 5 years and I sent you about 5 howlers this summer" he chuckled
" yes that's true, but because you are so talented at using a wand most of your howlers died after about 20 seconds" she said sarcastically and laughed at his reaction.
" I will get better" he mumbled. She laughed at him.
She got up from her seat and walked toward the door. " Where are you going?" he asked.
Ava laughed " if you must know, I am going to the bathroom, I didn't realize that I needed to inform you when I need to go" she laughed.
He blushed " you are free you to go" he said
she laughed as she closed the door behind her.
She walked through the narrow hallway to get to the bathroom at the end of the train. As she passed she caught eyes with someone. It was Draco. After that night when she told Seamus, Draco stayed away from her. He must of realized that Seamus knew, because for most of her 4th year Seamus was very protective,he always sent Draco death glares and if Draco would look at her, Seamus always caught his eye and did something that would always make Draco quickly look away. Ava didn't know how he did it, and she didn't want to know, if it scared Malfoy it would probably scare her. After a few months of Draco not torturing her, Ava conviced Seamus that she was fine and he eased off a little bit. Though every once in a while she can still tell that he watches out for her.
She sighed, it made the butterflies in her stomach pop out when she thought about him protecting her.
When she passed Draco's compartment, he gave her a look that sent shivers up her spine. For 3 years he never came near her, and she wanted it to stay that way. She walked quickly past and made her way to her destination.
As she made her way back to her compartment, out of the corner of her eye she noticed that only Crabbe and Goyle were sitting in their seats and that Draco was gone.
This made her walk slightly faster to her compartment, just as she saw the door she ran into someone's hard chest. She looked up and Draco looked down at her with a twinkle in his eye that she did not like. He grew much taller than 3 years ago and he had much more muscle. " Sorry about that" he whispered. She shoved her way past him and ran the rest of the way to her compartment.
She shut the door behind her and sat back down in her seat. The others looked up to acknowledge that she was back, but they soon returned to what they were doing before.
She looked back out the window and drifted into her own thoughts. Soon her eyes began to shut and her
A few hours later, Ava awoke, startled by the sound of a whistle. It was dark outside. She looked all around the compartment and found that all her friends were sleeping. Her head was rested on someone's comfortable shoulder. She looked beside her and immediately raised her head. She was laying on Seamus's shoulder and she felt embarassed.
She didn't think he noticed though because he was sound asleep and softly snoring. His arms were crossed. Ava couldn't stop staring at him. He looked so cute when he slept. She looked at his arms, they got more muscle during the summer, she thought that he looked really good. She shook her head from her thoughts and shook him " Seamus, Seamus! Get up, were at Hogwarts," she whispered. As he slowly opened his eyes she got up and went around to each person and shook them awake. They all groaned and streched.
They grabbed their luggage and headed off to the carriages that would take them to Hogwarts. It was late, everyone was tired, everyone had bags under their eyes. She could tell that Professor Dumbledore knew how tired everyone was but he wanted to make sure that everyone would eat, so no matter how tired theywere they still had to have dinner.
Professor Dumbledore made a long speech about each of their saftey and she saw his eyes glance mostly towards Harry and her. Ava looked out of the Great Hall and she saw an Auror passing by the door every once in a while. Once Dumbledore was done his speech everyone grabbed food.
Ava didn't grab any food, she wasn't very hungry so she poured herself a glass of pumpkin juice. Donna, Elaine and Hermione did the same. As for Seamus, Ben, Tyler and Ron. They grabbed whatever they could reach and stuffed it on their plate.
Out of all their friends, Seamus, Ron and Tyler had to be the biggest eaters in the whole school. Ben was close to them, but he never ate as much as the other three did. She never understood how they ate so much all the time, and they never got fat.
Donna stared at them with disgusted " Do you ever stop eating?" she asked.
Ben glared at her. " Were hungry" he said and looked back down at his food, Donna sighed and grabbed a piece of bread.
As Ava looked up she caught someone's eye, she looked over Dean's head, Logan was looking at her. She smiled at him, he smiled slightly back and looked back toward his friend. Ava sighed as she remembered her fourth year.
That was when she attended the Yule ball with Logan, she remembered how crazy her friends were.
She actually had fun with Logan, and she remembered when he complimented her and kissed her cheek, but she wouldn't let it go further than that. She laughed out loud when she remembered the looks that she got from Pansy and her little friends when they saw her with Logan.
Ava sighed, she had to admit it was good memories. The last memory that went through her mind was the next day when Logan asked her to be his girlfriend.
Ava didn't like remembering it, but the memory was always stuck in her head. She broke his heart when she rejected him, no matter how nice she told him no, she could tell in his eyes that she broke his heart. She just didn't want a boyfriend then. A bit of Ava's heart broke that night as well when she saw the look on his face.
Ava shook her head. She didn't like remembering though every time she looked at him the memories flooded back. They were good friends now, it didn't matter anymore.
She looked at up at her friends, Seamus was stuffing his face with food, Ava just stared at him. How could she not have any feelings for Logan, the perfect, good looking, popular, quidditch star, Hufflpuff boy but had feelings for Seamus, the obnoxious, sarcastic, rude, good looking Gryffindor boy.
Ava would never understand why her feelings were all switched around. Logan could always say the right thing. Everything that would come out of Seamus's mouth always messed something up. But for some reason, that night when Logan asked her out, Seamus's face popped into Ava's mind and that somehow changed her answer from yes, to no.
Ava shook her head again, and kept staring at Seamus, wondering if there was anything decent about him. Seamus looked up at her " Like what you see princess?" he said. Ava gave him a look of disgust " I wish" she responded.
Seamus just smirked at her.
" So what do you think Dumbledore was talking about?" Ben asked. Donna glanced briefly towards Ava, Ava didnt look at her. " Who knows" Seamus said. " Doesnt matter anyway, nothing can hurt us in Hogwarts, Dumbledore is just over reacting" he said.
" But what if he isnt over reacting" Donna said, " Would if someone in Hogwarts was in trouble"
Ava gave her a look.
" What are you talking about?" Tyler asked. " why would someone in Hogwarts be in trouble?"
" Your right Tyler, Donna doesnt know what she's talking about" Ava said and glared at her. Donna had an expression that was between hurt and angry.
" The only person in danger in Hogwarts is Harry, and we are all looking out for him and Dumbledore has his eye on him" Ava said and picked up her goblet. Donna gave her a nasty look but Ava ignored her
Behind her, Ava heard quiet giggling, she looked behind her and saw Millicent Bulstrode and Romilda Vaine and a small group of their friends whispering to each other. Ava groaned, she found Millicent and Romilda rather annoying, they were one year older than herself and they were always giggling to each other about clothes and boys and the latest gossip like they were 10 year olds, Ava was surprised that Lavander Brown wasn't part of their group.
Millicent pushed Romilda towards Seamus, who at that moment he didn't realize that they were there. Romlida coughed loudly to get Seamus's attention, when he didn't turn around her face grew red from embarassment.
" H- Hello Seamus" she said. Seamus turned around and looked at them " Hi" he said, and turned around to finish his food.
Romilda's face once again turned red, " Would you like me to get you some more pumpkin juice?" she asked.
" No thanks, I have some" he said, he didn't even look at her. Though Romilda and Millicent were acting really stupid, Ava couldn't believe how stupid Seamus was, could he not tell that these girls were hitting on him?
Ava couldn't help but glare at Romilda and her little group, didn't they realize that Seamus wasn't interested in them.
Suddenly Millicent stepped forward and pushed Romilda out of the way and gave her a look that told her she was acting like a baby.
" Seamus would you care to sit with us at the end of the table" she said, rather bluntly.
Seamus still didn't look up " No thanks, I am already sitting here" he said. Dean snicker to quietly to himself. Millient glared at Dean
she looked back at Seamus " But you always sit here with them, why don't you sit with us for a change" She said, once again rather bluntly.
" Because I want to sit here, I don't want to sit with you" he said, just as bluntly back to her. Ava guessed that he could hear the tone in Millicents voice,
Millicent turned red and she stomped off with her group of friends running behind her.
Tyler and Ben laughed " Good one mate that ought to keep them away for a little while" Ben said.
" Didn't you even notice that they were hitting on you?" Elaine asked.
Seamus looked at her confused " Hitting on who, me? Nah they were just being dumb"
" Sorry to disagree with you Seamus, but I agree with Elaine, they were one hundred percent hitting on you" Donna said.
" well if they were hitting on me, it wouldn't be a surprise, I do charm girls with my stunning looks" he smirked.
Ava groaned " Oh please"
Seamus looked at her " oh com'on Ava, I know you agree with me, I also know that you would love to go out with me too if i asked you" Seamus smirked at her
Ava felt her heart speed up, he was so ignorant " are you asking me out Seamus Finnigan?" she mocked
" Maybe" he said.
"Well You and I both know that the only time I will go out with you is in your dreams" she said. Ben and Dean laughed.
" Come' on, just one date, if you go out with me I will learn to keep my trap shut more often" Seamus said.
" If I had to choose to go on a date between Marcus Flint and you, I would choose Marcus Flint" She said
"like I said, only in your dreams" She finished and laughed at his fake shocked expression. She got up from the table and as she was walking out she heard him call after her " I know you don't mean that!" he yelled, and obviously didn't care that half the great hall heard him.
As Ava walked to the common room, she heard her name being called. " Uhhh" Ava groaned, thinking it was Seamus.
When she turned she saw Logan running behind her. Ava once again groaned inwardly to herself, she didn't feel like talking to him today.
" Hey Logan" she smiled at him. " Hey" he said, panting from his run " how was your summer?"
" probably just as boring as yours" she said and laughed. He laughed too " yeah that's true"
it was silent for a few minutes, the tension started getting greater, Ava racked her brain to try and think of something to say but Logan beat her too it.
" um so, I don't mean to make this akward but I just wanted to make sure that everything is cool between us"
Ava looked up at him confused. He blushed as he tried to find the right words" Like I wish you were my girlfriend, but since you not, well I still really want to be friends with you, cause your cool and funny and nice and well…." He stumbled with his words, Ava laughed at him, finally understanding.
" Yes Logan, we are good, I always thought of you as one of my good friends and it will stay that way" She said.
He sighed in relief, " Well okay, I am glad that this is sorted out, I guess I will see you tomorrow then" he said and smiled big at her.
" Okay see you tomorrow Logan, have a good night" she said and smiled at him. He waved and walked back to the Great Hall. Ava turned to continue her walk back to the common room, when she once again heard her name being called.
Ava sighed, how many people had to follow her. She turned and saw Stacey running towards her. " Hey Ava" she said smiling.
Ava laughed at her. " Hey Stace, how was your holiday?"
" It was okay, my mom made me study my spells over and over again, so I am now surprised if I am not as good of a wizard as dumbledore" she laughed to herself. Ava laughed with her " Wow your mom is really into you becoming a successful wizard isn't she?" Ava said. Stacey sighed, " Yeah she wants me to become an Auror" she said.
" Don't you want to be an Auror?" Ava asked.
" yes more than anything, but its just so much work" Stacey sighed again " Very stressful" she chuckled humorously to herself.
" So I saw you walk out of the Great Hall, and I thought I could join you, I need to go back to my common room early too for homework and it is on the way to your common room so I thought we could walk together. I haven't seen you in a while and thought we could catch up" She smiled
Ava grinned " yes of course, lets walk" she said and laughed.
The walked toward the Ravenclawe common room. " So when I ran to catch up with you, I ran into Logan Rye" Stacey said, and Ava didn't miss the blush that crossed her cheeks. " Were you two talking?" she asked.
" Yeah, but not for very long he just wanted to know if we could still be friends" Ava said. She stared at Stacey a bit longer, the blush didn't fade from her cheeks
" Stacey do you like him?" Ava asked. Staceys eyes went wide " N-No! not at all, why would you think that?" she stuttered.
" Well first off, you never stutter, second your all red, and third I know you too well" Ava claimed.
" Okay okay fine I have a small thing for him, but don't tell anyone, as far as I know you're the only one that knows this" Stacey said.
Ava smiled at her " I wont tell anyone I promise"
" Thanks Ava" Stacey said " But do you think he ever notices me?"
" Make him notice you" Ava said " Do something that will catch his eye"
" Like what?" Stacey asked " I dont know, next time you play them in Quidditch knock him off his broom" Ava said.
Stacey laughed " I can't do that!" stacey shrieked " He would hate me forever"
Ava laughed " Fine, then knock his friend of his broom, that would show him that you are independent and are a touch cookie that can handle any tough guy" she said.
" Ava!" Stacey said and laughed. Ava smiled, " you could just accidently hit him with a spell, or slip him a love potion" Ava said.
" I hate love potions, i would never do that i would want it to be real, and accidentaly hitting him with a spell actually sounds like a good idea"
Ava laughed " Don't i give the best advice?" she said. Stacey laughed " Sure sure"
They reached the hallway where the Ravenclawe common room was, " Thanks for everything Ava, see you in class tomorrow" Stacey said, and waved and walked down the hallway.
" Bye Stace" Ava said and waved as well. She walked to the Common room and up the stairs to where the fat lady was.
" Well hello Miss. Bronson, its lovley to see you again" The fat lady said, when she saw Ava. " Thank you, how are you?" Ava asked.
" Fine fine, i see you are well, just say the password and in you go" She replied. Ava said the password and walked into the Common room, the flames in the fire were roaring as they always did, Ava smiled, home, she thought and walked up the stairs to her room. Her stuff was already laid out on her bed as always, she started to unpack her clothes for tomorrow, when suddenly the door opened and was slammed shut. Ava jumped and turned around.
Donna was looking at her, fuming. " Why the hell did you have to do that?" she yelled.
Ava looked at her " Do what?" she asked. Donna rolled her eyes " oh you know exactly what! you made me look stupid!, you had to disagree with me even though you knew i was right" she yelled in her face.
Ava stomped over to her " It is not your place to tell people what is happening to me Donna, I am suppose to tell them, not you!" she yelled back.
" But thats just it, you won't tell them!, you won't tell anyone whats going on, our friends can help you Ava, they can help protect you" Donna's voice was pleading.
" I will tell them when i'm ready, i was planning on telling them sometime this year" Ava said loudly.
" Do you promise? they deserve to know Ava, its been three years and only me and Harry know, i will not be suprised if they get mad at you for keeping this a secret for so long, if you don't tell them by second semester, then i will tell them myself" she said.
" Don't you dare tell them anything Donna, this is my situation, not your problem, its not your right to go around telling everyone what is happening, i didn't tell anyone anything yet because believe it or not i am still getting use to the situation, i wanted to enjoy most of my school year not worrying about whats going to happen and not to be reminded by everyone that i have to be watched over, so leave the situation to me! i promise i will tell them before Second semeter starts"
Donna was speechless. " I-I'm sorry Ava. Fine i won't tell anyone, but you promised that you would tell them before second semester so remember that, they deserve to know Ava"
Then she turned around and dressed into her P.J's and crawled into bed. Ava just stood there. When exactly would she tell her friends, and how could she explain it. Maybe she could get Harry to help her explain, and Donna for sure would help too. Ava also dressed into her Pajamas and laid there in bed thinking. What was going to happen to her?