Extremely sorry for the huge delay! I know, a whole three months! What kind of person does that? Well, at least now and later than never! (optimist)
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Seconds after I set off to find my dear, comforting food, I heard two identical voices coming up from behind me, along with another that was oh, so familiar. The voice of the one person that everyone recognized; it was the voice of Lee Jordan, the boy that had had a crush on me for so long!
Of course, I did hear that he was getting over me, (ha, that sounds funny), and had developed a new crush on my other best friend, Leanne. Amazing what can change in just three months!
Well, as predicted, I turned around to see, yet again, the Weasley twins and Lee.
But I also saw, not too far down the corridor, the food trolley! Shortly followed by Ange, Alicia, and Oliver.
I ran over as fast as I could and bought much more than needed…well not needed, just how about, necessary, yeah, necessary…much more than necessary.
Much more than necessary meaning seven chocolate frogs, two jumbo bags of Every Flavoured Beans, ten pumpkin pasties, some random bag of red stretchy stuff and much, much, more.
My excuse for buying so much…well there is none. Oh! How about, I love to eat! Especially when something's bothering me. Sounds perfect to me! Any problems? Great! Moving on!
So, with my arms absolutely, positively full with food, we made our way back to the compartment. It was definitely a challenge to not drop anything.
Collapsing into the seat beside my bag, I immediately began shoving my face full of food.
"Hey Katie, what's the rush? Not like you need to get any fatter," Lee Jordan teased.
By now I was used to people making fun of how much I ate. Really, truthfully, I wasn't all that fat.
I wasn't a twig like Alicia, but I wasn't big like those kids Crabbe and Goyle. Just plain - actually, pretty well proportioned - in fact, I looked great!
But anyways, just to get back at him, I, being the little child I was, said…
"Hey, at least I can still zip up my pants!" I said with a nod towards his um *cough cough* crotch area.
"Oy! Whadya doin' lookin' down there for?!" he retorted.
With a small chuckle at how pink, or rather red, I had just turned he got up and zipped up his fly.
"Yeah, Katie! Since when did you get so perverted?!" Angelina said with a grin.
I swear, one day that girl is gonna get it!
Well anyways, for a while there, we all just sat in silence, munching on whatever we could get our hands on.
I stared out the window for a while, thinking…and then it happened.
Everything stopped. All went black and nothing could be seen. For some reason it got really, really cold. I snuggled closer to whoever was beside me. It just so happened to be Oliver, (amazing how these things just miraculously happen).
I must admit, I was terrified. I didn't know what was going on. And even when I thought things couldn't get any worse, they did.
My mind went into a state of blankness. I could barely see reality, things became foggy and blurry. That's when things got weird(er).
I saw flashes of things in my head that I tried to forget. This is what it was…:
I saw flashes of what seemed to be the Hogwarts Quidditch pitch. And then, I saw a petite version of Oliver, and one of me.
"I can't believe you would say something like that!" the slightly smaller Oliver from my dreams screamed.
"Well, it's not my fault! You're the one who ignored me for almost six years!" mini-me shouted back.
"I hate you!" he yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Good 'cause so do I!" I shrieked.
He hopped back onto his Comet Two-Sixty flying way up, as I stormed off towards the changing room, trying to put as much distance in between me and that jerk as possible.
And then, everything went blank…
But then they started all over again.
I was on my way to the Quidditch Captains' Room. My face was slightly tearstained as I had just had a row with Oliver.
I knew that Oliver wasn't in the Gryffindor common room, so there was only one other place he could be.
As I drew closer to the door, I could hear the rustling of someone moving about.
Figuring it must have been Oliver, I opened the door and all was dark. I could barely see anything, but I didn't care. This way, Oliver would not be able to tell that I was crying.
So I flung my arms around the figure's neck in front of me, and began my apology.
"I'm so sorry about what happened on the pitch today. I really didn't mean any of it," I commenced.
But then the figure that I had my arms wrapped around turned to face me. And I clearly saw that it was not Oliver Wood at all, but rather the Slytherin Quidditch Captain whose name I did not know.
"Hey honey, you were saying?" he said with the nastiest grin ever.
I screamed at the top of my lungs and ran out as fast as I could.
I snapped back to reality just as the door of our compartment slid open, and in came a terrified, pale-faced boy.
It was Draco Malfoy, the Slythrin seeker. I hated that kid.
I heard two identical voices mutter the same thing: "Malfoy, I hate that kid."
Well, in a normal situation, we would all be laughing at this precise moment, but considering the fact that all of the happiness was sucked out of us, we couldn't.
Anyways, the reason of our laughing and crying of total 'agony' would be because the Malfoy kid had just realized that he wasn't in the right compartment.
Therefore, dying of embarrassment and the fact that he was so scared he looked like he was about to cry, I swear on my Comet Two-Sixty that he had just left in such a rush because he peed himself.
Well, whatever. The point is, the all high and mighty Draco Malfoy had just left our compartment looking exactly like a dog with its tail in-between its legs.
Priceless! Absolutely priceless. I swear I will never forget that moment for as long as I live! Storing in memory…..Complete! Okay.
But just as our door slid closed, we saw this thing pass our compartment. It was really scary looking.
And then, we heard a very unfamiliar voice.
"None of us is hiding Sirius Black under our cloaks. Go."
And with that, there was a flash of silver light, and then we saw the thing in a black hooded cape glide away.
Almost instantly, the coldness and darkness disappeared. I could finally see again.
I saw that I wasn't the only one that was really shaken up by that thing. Angelina was practically clinging on to Fred for dear life, while Alicia was shaking like mad.
That's when I noticed that so was I. Oliver realized this at once and embraced me very tightly.
Shaking uncontrollably, I felt a single tear fall down my face. I quickly wiped it away not wanting anyone to see me crying.
"It's okay Kates, there's nothing here to hurt you anymore," Oliver said comforting me.
I nodded and then plastered a fairly big, fake, cheery smile on my face.
"I'm fine," I said.
I looked up and saw George now hugging Alicia as well. It was a funny sight if you ask me; everyone hugging each other.
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