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The next day Lydia managed to roll herself out of bed just in time to meet Curtis in the common room to walk to class. "Good morning sleeping beauty." Curtis said sarcastically when she walked into the common room. "You basically slept through breakfast, now you'll have to go to class without eating."

Lydia yawned and rubbed her eyes a bit. "It's fine, I never used to eat breakfast before class. Even ask Jace, she'll vouch for me."

"Jace? And that would be…?" Curtis asked as the two of them left the common room and headed in the direction of their Charms class.

"Oh sorry, Jacey, or Jace as I call her, is my best friend from my muggle school. See dad didn't exactly know how to tell my mom he was a wizard, so he kinda waited till my Hogwarts letter came to tell us. Since mom didn't know anything about that, she had me enrolled at a muggle school for a while. Jace lives down the street from me and we'd walk to school together every day."

"Ah, I see. And how did she take it when you told her about Hogwarts?"

Lydia giggled "She smiled and said that it was the most awesome thing on the planet. I'm to write to her everyday via owl. That's why I brought Athena to school with me."

"Let me guess, you named your old Athena because that's the name of the Greek Goddess of wisdom, am I right?"

Before Lydia could respond, James Potter ran past them, Robyn Finnigan hot at his heels. The two young Hufflepuffs blinked at each other and then kept walking.

"It's amazing how we keep running into that family, and yet we've never talked to any of them." Lydia remarked.

"To you it's amazing; to me it's a miracle." Curtis mumbled. The two friends took their seat behind two Gryffindor girls…wait a minute…Gryffindor ginger twins. Curtis chuckled to himself. "My, my, you certainly jinxed us Lydia."

"Huh? I don't-"

"Excuse me, but you two wouldn't happen to be Molly and Lucy Weasley, would you?" The twins turned around and nodded. "That's what I thought, sorry to interrupt you girls. The name's Curtis Macmillan and my friend here is Lydia Clarke."

Lydia nervously waved at the two girls smiling back at her. "I see what you mean by jinxing it." She whispered to Curtis after they turned back around.

Curtis and Lydia continued from class to class, running into Sarah Longbottom in Transfiguration, Scorpious Malfoy, Albus Potter, and Rose Weasley in Defense Against the Dark Arts, Running into Molly and Lucy Weasley again in potions, and then no one they recognized in their first year flying class.

After class Lydia got off her broom and began to kiss the ground. "Oh sweet, glorious grass, I missed you so much. You're where I'm safest. Close to the ground and far from the sky."

Curtis rolled his eyes. "Lydia, you want to stand up? You're kinda causing people to stare."

"Curtis, I'd get up if I could, but in all honesty I cannot move from this spot."

"Is there anything I can do to help you get up?"

"Well Curtis, you have two options. You could pull me up and I could use you as support to walk, or you could grab my ankles and drag me back to the Hufflepuff common room."

Curtis thought for a moment. On the one hand he'd have a girl his age draped over him as he walked. On the other hand, he got to embarrass someone by dragging them back to the Hufflepuff common room. "Works for me." Curtis said as he grabbed Lydia's ankles.

"Wait what? No, no no no no no no no no no no no! I order you to cease and desist!" Lydia shrieked as Curtis continued to drag her.

"So do I." The two young Hufflepuffs looked up to see none other than Professor McGonagall, the school's Headmistress.

Curtis immediately let go of Lydia's ankles. Lydia stood up as quickly as possible. The two frantically began to apologize.

"I'll let you off with a warning; this isn't a safe place to be joking around like that. Understood?" The two first years nodded. "Understood professor."

As soon as Professor McGonagall left though, they started laughing. "Oh my God I can't believe we just got in trouble because you were trying to drag me back to the common room!" Lydia exclaimed.

"I know right? It's not the worst thing we could do. It's not like we kidnapped a teacher and then pretended to be him for months on end via polyjuice potion."

The two continued to laugh and talk about the horrible things they could have done, and Lydia thought of what she was going to tell Jacey about in her first letter.

yay another chapter R&R please