AN: This section does use some quotes from the book but I didn't want to completely re-write the meeting at Hogsmeade so sorry if that makes you angry. Also I'm aware Leanne never went to the meeting at the Hogshead. No I'm not JK Rowling and I take no credit for those quotes.

Katie couldn't express how excited she was to be in a relationship with Fred especially a secret one. She had the romance without people staring at her and Fred in the hallway. Although there negatives that went along with the secret relationship as well such as not being able to hold hands like other couples but even with that Fred still found a way to show his affections towards her. Sometimes he would squeeze her shoulder when they standing next to each other in the hallway or whisper that he would think about her during his next class, which made Katie especially happy.

"Hey Katie, so the Hogsmeade trip is this weekend," said Fred.

"Yeah I guess it is." Said Katie hoping Fred would ask if she wanted to spend time with him.

"So did you hear that Harry's going to offer defense against the dark arts lessons?" asked Fred.

"No I didn't but that sounds interesting, but what does this have to do with Hogsmeade?" asked Katie.

"Well if my sources are right there's going to be a meeting about the lessons in the Hogshead this weekend, do you think you're going to go?" asked Fred.

"Yeah sure" said Katie a little disappointed that Fred didn't ask her to do anything.

"And I was thinking afterwards maybe we could go do something?" said Fred and Katie's disappointment immediately vanished.

"What were you think of doing?" asked Katie.

"Maybe we could just go and get some butterbeers or visit the shrieking shack" suggested Fred.

"I think I'll go with the butterbeers" said Katie.

"An amazing choice" said Fred

When the Hogsmeade trip finally came Katie could hardly wait, of course she knew she would have to hide her excitement because no one knew that that day was Katie was going to have her first date. When she finally got into Hogsmeade she and Leanne decided to look around because Harry's meeting wasn't going to start for a while. The place they went to was Scrivenshaft's Quill shop, a store that sold quills, parchment and other writing supplies.

"Won't it be exciting to actually learn how to defend ourselves," said Leanne.

"Yeah," said Katie, "but I wonder how we're going to be able to keep it a secret, or where in the school we could even practice."

"I'm sure Harry will find a way, he always does. Oh, do you like this quill?" asked Leanne, holding up a white quill that had what looked like golden streaks in the feather.

"Yeah but it looks expensive, how much does it cost?" asked Katie.

"It's ten galleons, for a quill! I can't get that, it's too expensive. Oh well, I guess I'll just get this one" said Leanne holding up a plain quill that still looked quite nice.

"Let's go to Honeydukes next!" said Katie as Leanne was checking out. Honeydukes was by far Katie's favorite place in Hogsmeade, as it was many students.

"Okay I think we have around thirty minutes until the meeting starts. Do you think that will give you enough time?"

"Well, I don't think I can ever have enough time in that place but I think it will be enough time to look around really quickly and get some chocolate frogs" said Katie as they left the store and started walking to Honeydukes. As they were walking they could feel the coolness of an autumn breeze in their faces and saw brown leaves falling down from all the trees around them. As Katie looked up towards the sky she saw nothing but gray clouds and couldn't see any sign of sun. While they were walking to Honeydukes they passed Zonko's joke shop and saw Fred, George and Lee, who looked like they were having the time of their lives looking at dung bombs and nose-biting teacups. When Katie and Leanne finally made it to Honeydukes Katie saw lots of kids looking at sugared butterfly wings, pixie puffs and droobles along with other sweets. Katie decided to buy two chocolate frogs and Leanne bought a chocolate wand and after a brief moment of talking to their other classmates they left for the Hogshead. When they walked in they saw Neville, Dean, Lavender, Parvati, Padma, Cho and Luna were already there. After they sat down they saw Alicia and Angelina, Colin and Dennis Creevey, Ernie, Justin, Hannah Abbott, Anthony Goldstein, Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Zacharias Smith and lastly Fred, George and Lee.

"Wow a lot of people showed up" said Katie.

Then Katie saw Fred walk up to the bartender and say "Hi, could we have… twenty-five butterbeers please." The bartender looked like he was in a bit of shock and then started passing butterbeers to Fred who then started passing them out to everyone.

"Cheers," said Fred. "Cough up everyone; I haven't got enough gold for all of these…"

When Fred went up to Katie to give her her butterbeer she started going through her robe to find money but he quickly stopped her saying, "Don't worry it's on me," and gave her a smile. She then took the dusty bottle out of his hands and started to look around the pub. She saw all of the dusty tables and wooden chairs that looked like they could be at least a hundred years old. She also the dusty curtains and the bar table that looked like it had an inch of dust on it. Eventually after everyone got their butterbeers and gave Fred the money they owed him, Hermione decided to give a speech.

"Er-well-er-hi" said Hermione, "Well…erm…well, you all know why you're here. Erm…" and her speech continued to go like that that explaining how they needed a proper defense against the dark arts teacher and why they needed to know how to defend themselves until Zacharias Smith spoke up.

"Where's the proof you-know-who's back?" he asked.

"Well Dumbledore believes it-" said Hermione.

"You mean Dumbledore believes him"

And suddenly havoc broke out about who believed who. It seemed all Zacharias wanted to know was what happened to Harry and Cedric Diggory in the graveyard the year ealier. Eventually Hermione settled everyone down and they finally got down to business deciding how often they would meet and where.

"Well once a week sounds cool," said Lee.

"As long as-" said Angelina who was about to make sure everyone knew about quidditch practices.

"Yes, yes we know about quidditch," said Hermione in a slightly annoyed voice. "Well the other thing to decide is where we're going to meet."

Katie started to think about all the places she went to study, the first one being the common room but knowing that couldn't work because there were people from other houses wanting to join. The only other public place she could think of studying in was… "Library?" and immediately felt stupid after she said this.

"I can't see Madam Pince being too happy with us doing hexes and jinxes in the library" said Harry.

"After many propositions they couldn't come to anything and decided they would come up later. Hermione then pulled out a piece of parchment and suggested that everyone should sign their names. Fred was the first to sign and after Katie signed he went up to her and whispered "you ready to go?"

"Yeah" Katie replied back. And they both walked out of the Hogshead together.

"Well we now have one hour left, do you still want to go get butterbeers, I mean we just had some."

"No, but we could go to Tomes and Scrolls book shop" suggested Katie.

"Well you see books really aren't my thing…"

"Exactly, and if George and Lee come looking for you they'll never find you there."

"Okay Katie, if it makes you happy."

As they walked into the book store Fred felt very out of place, this was one of the only shops in Hogsmeade he had never been in but Katie looked like she was having a good time and that was all the mattered to him. As he looked across the shelves he saw a book titled Twelve foolproof ways to charm a witches and decided he would get the book and that it might come in handy.

"So Katie I'm assuming you love to read books"

"Well yeah, I love reading and writing, not as much as Hermione Granger but still…"

"So let me see, you love books, writing, quidditch-"

"and chocolate, you can't forget that" said Katie with a small smile.

"Of course we can't forget the chocolate" said Fred looking through some other random books he pulled off the shelf.

"Fred…"

"Yes?"

"Why do like me?" This question caught Fred totally off guard and he didn't quite know how to respond to this.

"What do you mean?" he asked back in a stunned voice.

"Well I'm nothing like you."

"Let's keep in mind nobody is quite like me" said Fred back with a malicious grin.

"Well I like reading books, you certainly don't, I'm a quieter person and you're definitely not…"

"Yeah but your nice, and you listen to people and your thoughtful and you're very pretty, might I add" said Fred.

"You think so?" said Katie.

"Mm-hmm" said Fred while nodding.

Katie just smiled and started to think over what Fred said when suddenly she saw the clock hung up in the store.

"Fred we have to go look at the time" said Katie a little sad; the date felt so short.

"Well then we best be off," said Fred, "Hey Katie are you doing anything on Tuesday night?"

"Other than studying , no?"

"Well, meet me at 10:00 on Tuesday"

"Okay"