A/N: the rest of the chapters are kind of shorter than the first one. this one is boring at first but gets really exciting so...

p.s. i don't own harry potter, oliver wood, percy weasley, or any of the hogwarts houses

Chapter two

New Friends and a Secret

Lauren was soon sitting on her bed in her dormitory. She was smiling her wonderful smile!

"Hello!" she said to the girl sitting in the bed beside her. She had dark skin and long black hair. She looked up from her book.

"Hello!" she said.

"I'm Lauren" Lauren said.

"I'm Mikaela but don't call me that! Call me Mickey."

"That's a pretty cool name, Mickey!

"I like it better than Mikaela! Do you play chess?"

"Yes! I love it"

The two girls were soon discussing school over a game of chess. Mikaela had an older sister in her 4th year and who was in Hufflepuff.

"And my brother is in Slytherin, he's in his last year"

"Wow! I didn't think a whole family could be split up like that"

"Yeah my parents are really worried since my brother is in the "bad" house. I don't care so much, though."

"Hey want to go visit my friend, Oliver? He's a boy so…" her voice trailed off.

"That would be cool!"

The two girls went down the stairs then up the stairs to the boys dormitory. Soon they were sitting next to Oliver and his friend Eric, a red haired boy, on the floor of the dormitory, to the dismay of the other boys who very much wanted to go to sleep.

"Excuse me!" said a boy with even redder hair than Eric, "It's time to go to sleep and girls shouldn't be in here anyway!"

"Oh, shut it Percy!" Eric said, "You're not a prefect yet. You have no authority to tell us what to do. And girls are aloud in boy's dormitories, but boys aren't allowed in theres"

"And for good reason," Lauren said.

"Now leave us alone," Eric ignored her still talking to Percy.

Percy turned and walked over to his bed. He pulled the curtains around it shut but they could tell he was sitting there reading waiting for a moment to get mad at them. They went to bed soon after that, Lauren and Mickey returning to the girl's dormitory.

For a few months nothing exciting happened. They went to classes; Lauren got top marks on everything. They hung out by the lake playing chess and talking about quidditch. Lauren and Oliver had tried out for the team but were unsuccessful. They were beaten out by older students.

Every break time Anna would come and hang out with them and often she would talk to them at lunch. She hadn't made the Ravenclaw quidditch team, either. At the first quidditch match of the season the 5 friends sat in the stands and watched as Gryffindor beat Slytherin, due to amazing skill by Charlie Weasley, the seeker.

Then in October something very exciting happened.

They were sitting in the common room laughing at the funniest things. Lauren laughing the loudest. Even later that day they couldn't remember what had been so funny, because of what happened next.

A bottle of ink exploded. At first they found this funny as well because the ink had drenched a nearby Percy, but suddenly, one of Mickey's potion bottle's, that she had taken out of her bag looking for her Transfiguration homework, exploded. The glass went everywhere. It cut there hands and ankles, but it hit Mickey the worst. Her face was dripping with blood and she was screaming.

"Someone take her to the hospital wing!"

"Get Professor McGonagall!"

"Somebody help!!"

Soon they were all standing in the hospital wing around Mickey's bed. Anna had come rushing in only 5 minutes after they got there having run into Professor McGonagall on her way.

"What happened?" Anna wondered aloud.

"We don't know" Oliver said, "It just exploded in her face."

"Maybe someone cast a spell!" Eric said quickly, "Percy never liked us! He's probably sitting up there laughing right now!"

"Percy wouldn't do this" Oliver said, "He follows the rules"

Suddenly the door swung open behind them. There was Percy, out of breath, as though he had ran all the way here.

"What do you want?" Eric said nastily.

"I wanted to know how Mickey was" Percy said, walking up to them. He looked down at Mickey's face. It still had cut's on it but Madam Pomfrey had managed to get rid of most of them. Mickey's eyes were shut and she was snoring very lightly.

"Is she all right?" Percy said, "I mean, will she be?"

"Yes," Eric said, "And what do you care?"

"Well someone obviously performed magic when they aren't allowed to! I'm going to catch this person as soon as I possibly can."

"Thanks Percy" Lauren said unexpectedly. She hadn't spoken since they got to the hospital wing.

"I have to tell you guys something" she said, "but it's a secret, well more like multiple secrets, and you can't never tell anyone"

"You mean-"

"Don't bug me about my grammer, Percy. I'm just starting to like you, don't ruin it!"

"We won't tell anyone" Oliver said quickly.