Entry for the "Flying Lessons" at "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments)"

Task: Your landings are most likely going to be shaky and why wouldn't this occur in a relationship as well? For this task, I want you to write about a misunderstanding that is causing problems in your relationship. With a bad landing, you should quickly jump to your feet, mount your broom and try again! Your pairing should do the exact same with this rocky part and you have to show that in the story. Min 500 words

Prompt: (location) Hogsmeade

Extra Prompt: (word) – ridiculous

Entry for the "Chocolate Frog Card Club" at "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges and Assignments)"

(Bronze) Myron Wagtail; Challenge: Write about the leader of a group or organisation.

Katie was humming happily as she walked into the Three Broomsticks, looking forward to her date with Marcus, with whom she had been having something like a relationship since their kiss in the corridor. They had been rather secretive about what had happened on that day and to what it was leading to as they knew that many people would not understand.

Anyway, Katie felt very happy – they were getting closer with every single one of their secret meetings. Sometimes they would sneak out after curfew to meet in a deserted classroom and have a small midnight date – not to have sex, but only to sit together, talk, snuggled against each other and of course snog. And when they both were busy they would even consider a quick exchange of kisses behind a tapestry enough, because being together, if only for a few minutes, was all that mattered to them.

So today, they were going to have their first date in public, and Katie could not deny that she was slightly anxious about how people could react if they saw the Gryffindor chaser and the Slytherin team captain together.

But the second Katie's eyes fell on the table that Marcus was sitting at these thoughts were being wiped off her mind.

He was not alone, as she had expected. Marcus was with a girl Katie knew was in Slytherin too, and he was talking to her as he placed his hand over hers. Katie gasped and stared at them, hoping that she was actually dreaming in this moment.

Suddenly, Marcus looked up and saw Katie, who just glared at him and spun around on her heels, leaving the pub as fast as she could.

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"Katie! Katie, please, wait!" Marcus exclaimed as he pursued Katie, who was storming up the main road of Hogsmeade, heading for Hogwarts.

"No, Marcus, I understood! It was ridiculous to think that you actually had any interest in me! I should have realised that you would never mean it seriously with me! You probably just wanted to have some fun with me, and meanwhile you could just perfectly make fun of me in front of your friends!" Katie responded, her voice raspy in anger as she continued to walk in a fast pace, trying to get away from Marcus who tried to reach for her elbow.

"Katie, it is not what you think!"

The Gryffindor tried to swallow the tears that were swelling up in her eyes as she walked, them being the silent proof of how much the sight that she had just witnessed had shaken her up and that it had hurt her, no matter how much she tried to conceal it.

"Oh, you sitting there, having a very close chat to that girl, holding her hand? I doubt that it could have been clearer! Though I think you could at least have had the decency to do it when we were not about to have a date! On the other hand, it was probably better that I saw you two, otherwise I could have get more attached to you!"

Marcus finally managed to grab Katie's arm and pulled her back, forcing her to stop and spin around to face him. Her eyes were literally emitting sparks of anger as she glared up at him and he had to use his other arm to keep her from walking away.

"Please, listen to me!" Marcus pleaded, his heart racing in his chest. "I swear to you, Claire is the girlfriend of Montague and she was just seeking for my advice because he is ignoring her currently... I know how it looked like from your perspective, Katie, but it really was a misunderstanding!"

Katie did not know what to believe, and so she decided to look into his eyes to search the truth there, and she found it there.

"I... okay..."

"I am so sorry, Katie," Marcus breathed, looking relieved, and pulled her into his arms, placing a kiss on her hair. "I should have known that you could possibly see the situation and misinterpret it. I love you."

"I love you too... and I am sorry that I did not trust you completely... I guess it is because of the whole situation of our relationship still being a secret and all the prejudices about Slytherins. In this moment I just feared that you were playing with me all the time!" Katie mumbled into his chest, feeling like it was time to confess this slight fear to him. Marcus sighed and embraced her even tighter, answering:"I am not playing with you, Katie, I love you too much to do this."

She raised her head and ran her fingers along his jawbone before getting onto her toes and kiss him, happy that everything had turned out different than she had thought at first, and that Marcus was really trying to make her trust him.