Lina wasn't like most girls, so when her admiration towards the Ravenclaw boy grew into a crush, she didn't really notice. And when she did finally notice, she didn't think about it or him all of the time. In fact, he rarely ever crossed her mind. It was exactly the way it always had been before she'd seen him that first time in the OWL exams.
Except that now, she wanted to know his name even more than she had before. Because if this boy was going to be her first crush, she felt she at least had the right to know who she was crushing on. So that morning at breakfast, while Hannah and Megan chatted away on the other side of the table, for the first time, she put her book down.
"Who's that boy over there-? The Ravenclaw. Do you know his name?" She asked quickly and quietly, pointing at the boy, who was sitting at the far end of the Ravenclaw table.
Hannah and Megan both stopped talking at the same time, and Hannah raised her eyebrows at Lina a moment, before looking in the direction she was pointing.
"The one with the black hair? That's Michael Corner." She said simply.
"No, the one next to him. Mahogany colored hair?" Lina specified, putting her hand down on the tabletop.
Hannah craned her neck and her eyes lit up. "Oh, you mean him! That's Terry Boot."
Megan took a bite of an apple, giving Lina a curious expression. "I thought you would know that. He's in our potions class."
Lina knew this already. She'd often found herself glancing up from her book to look at him fleetingly, in class. Though she didn't think about him ad often as other girls thought of their crushes, when they were in the same room together, she nonetheless looked at and thought about him.
"Well, yes, Meg, but she wouldn't really know, would she? She does get lost in her books really easily." Hannah pointed out.
"True."
Not wanting to be pulled further into the conversation, Lina picked her book up, and resumed her reading.
Terry Boot. She'd read that name somewhere before.. She racked her brains, trying to remember where, and then remembered. She'd seen his name on the sign up sheet for dueling club that was tacked to the notice board in the entrance hall.
Smiling to herself, she silently admitted that she was glad to finally know the boy's name.