Oh The joys of Fridays, not only do i have herbology again today, i have charms, transfiguration, care of magical creatures, and not to mention my Detention. Can't wait. oh that's right, i can, it's not like its the first detention i have received, but i have just found out who we will be sharing it with, James bloody Potter and Sirius Black, just what i need when i'm trying to get over him.
So here i am walking along to my doom, yet again, don't get me wrong, herbology would be brilliant if i actually could touch a plant, i walked into the lesson and took my usual seat, next to Sam, i'm actually surprised she wants to sit next to me, it's just a matter of time until the plant kills me and then turns against her.
'Morning, Freya sleep well?'
'not to bad i supp- what are you doing?' i asked as Sirius and James lowered them selves in to the seats opposite us
'We're here so we can see you show the plants whose boss today' Sirius replied
'Brilliant' i said sarcastically.
'Good morning, class' Professor Sprout said as she walked into the greenhouse,
'Yeah, great morning' i muttered placing my head on my hand and frowning. A piece of paper hit my head and bounced on to my lap, i looked up and saw Sirius pointing to it and mouthing
'Open it' i smiled and looked back at professor Sprout, i wasn't going to open it just to annoy him
'Fanged Geranium' i groaned 'i know we learnt about these last year, but i'd like you to revise them, if you get bitten come to me and i'll check how bad it is, and decide weather or not you need to go to the hospital wing, The plants are at the front of the class, now off you go' i swear she puts in the bits about the hospital wing purely because i'm in the lesson. yeah makes sense.
I went up to the front to get my pot, i turned around and came face to face with snape. he sneered at me
'Oh what do you want now?' i asked annoyed
'Is it true that Li-Evans is going to Slughorn's party with Potter?' i smiled
'Yes it is, brilliant isn't it!'i skipped back to my table and put the plant back down on the table, i looked back at snape and felt slightly sorry when i saw how down he looked, but that was his fault. He shouldn't have called her the M-word.
'Open it' Sirius whispered into my ear as he walked past with his pot, i knocked my pot off the table, but caught it before it hit the floor
'Ah-ha thought you could get away from me, well i foiled your plan' i said to it putting it back on the table and picked up the note and opened it slowly, then i read it
'Would you like to go to hogsmead with me next visit, as a date? love Sirius' i chocked on air. Sirius Black, The Sirius Black had just asked me to go to hogsmead with him. I looked at Sam.
'Need to talk, in private' i whispered
'Ok' she said and held my hand out to the plant 'we'll discuss on the way to the hospital wing'
'Wait Sam no! not now, i meant after the less- OW, Sam what the hell' the plant had bit my hand, and blood was now pouring down my wrist,
'Oh, sorry, lets take you to professor Sprout' i huffed and walked up to the front of the class with Sam in tow.
'Oh not again, miss Griffin, why is it always you?' professor sprout sighed
'Trust me, i have no clue, but today you can blame this on Sam' i huffed holding my hand
'Well you'll need to go to the hospital wing, take your bag the bell will go shortly' i nodded and got my bag, i think i was loosing alot of blood because i was starting to feel light headed and wobbly
'Come on then, Freya' Sam said leading me to the door
'Did you know that the world is spinning?' i asked her, and then i think i may have blacked out slightly, i remember being picked up by someone, and that's about it.
I woke up in the hospital wing, i groaned.
'Are you ok?' sam asked
'I can twist my head to the left, i guess that's something?' i asked
'She's lost her mind' Said Sirius
'No i haven't, being sane is boring' i said looking at him, hang on why was he here
'Why are you here anyway?' i asked
'I carried you here after you passed out, I came back to see if you were alright, Oh and madam pomfrey said you can go whenever'
'Oh, what class is next?' i asked Lissa who was sitting on the bed next to me
'You've been unconsious all day, our detention is in two hours, it's dinner now' i gaped at her, wow
'So, food time?' i asked her
'Food time' she agreed, the four of us walked down to the great hall, we were in the entrance hall when sirius pulled me to the side, the other two looked back, sirius waved them in, i tried to act cool, like i wasn't about to collapse again,
'So what's you're answer?'
'To what?' i said so i don't seem so desperate...
'To the note i threw at you' he replied, leaning against the wall
'Oh that, well, err ok?' yay i didn't sound stupid or scream desperatly in his ear, i'm so proud of myself,
'Wickid, so meet me here, at eleven, next saturday then?'
'yeah, cool, see you' i turned around and walked into the great hall, did i just act... normal? no way
i lowered myself in to my seat by Lissa and Jake slowly, i think i maybe in shock,
'Oh, Merlin' i said as Lissa and Jake turned to look at me
'What's wrong?' asked
'I just acted, normal' i said looking at Lissa 'Infront of Sirius Black'
'No way'
'He asked me to Hogsmead' she dropped her fork and jumped up, grabbing my hand and pulling me out of the great hall, i grabbed a bread roll off the table and allowed her to drag me. I told her what had happened and neither of us can believe that i didn't stutter or fall over or some how die.
'Do you hear that?' i asked as we were going to our Detention, i didn't hear anything..
'Hear what?' Lissa asked looking around
'don't worry it's gone now' i smiled as i knocked on the door of professor McGonagall's office,
she let us in and sat us down on some desks, there were four set out. i smiled and sat on one up against the wall, and leant against it waiting for the two trouble makers to arrive. They did and were ten minutes late, i had fallen asleep leaning against the wall with my head on the table, Lissa poked me, i sat up looked around and stretched.
'Right, i want you to each write an essay, you have two hours, Miss Griffin, miss Newton yours shall be, 'Reasons why i should not inturupt class with silly comments' Mr Black and Mr Potter yours will be 'I will not push others around for no reason'
'To be fair Professor M-' Sirius began
'Your essay Mr Black, i'll come back in an hour to check on your progress' and with that she left the room, i picked up my quill and parchment, but before i began to write, james had stood up and pointed his wand at me, thats odd, suddenly i was lifted into the air by my ankle, and right now i love the person who invented tights.
'Potter!' Lissa said outraged
'It's cool, i can write upside down' i said casually, James had taken his seat
'Put her down!'
'No'
'Yes'
'No'
'Yes'
'well this is a lovely conversation but i would appreciate it if you could just let me do-' i began but was interupted
'Why should i put you down?' he asked rudly
'never mind' i mumbled and grabbed my parchment and quill and rested it on the wall, i began my essay, ignoring what was happening around me, and after half an hour i'd finished it. i yawned put my things on the desk and closed my eyes.
'She's going to sleep, how can she do that?' Lissa's voice said weirdly
'She reads upside down from a tree too' Sirius said
'She always hung upside down, she liked to when we played quiddich' James said offhandedly, i opened my eyes and looked over at him, he was looking down at his essay. I frowned. both Sirius and Lissa said in unison
'What?'
'Can i be put on the ground now, i was unconsious all day and don't think i'm quite up to my normal upsidedownness?' with a swish of his wand, i was falling onto the floor. i landed yet again on my bum, the bruise was now most likely double the size, i winced and stood up quickle, and sat with my feet up under me. head on the desk as i fell asleep once more.
I was once again awoken by being poked by Lissa. i growled at her, she just smiled
'It's nine-thirty, we're allowed to leave' i jumped up and grabbed my bag leaving the essay on the desk and walking out of the room with Lissa.
'I'm going off to see Luke' she said, he was one of her Hufflepuff friends, i nodded and walked up the stairs towards the seventh floor corridor, but i stopped in the fifth floor hearing voices drifting towards me, i listened
'So that was what the note said?' James voice asked
'Yeah' Sirius voice echoed through the corridor and around the corner
'You're going along with the dare then?' james asked
'i never back out of a dare, you know that' he said severely
'So you asked her to hogsmead, and she said yes'
'Yeah'
'Doesn't suspect anything?' James asked thoughtfully
'nothing, and the weird thing was she didn't fall over anything' Sirius laughed
'that is weird' James agreed
'What was the other part of the dare?' Sirius asked
'Lure her to the shrieking shack' James said
'alright, then?'
'Lock her in it, and come meet us in the three broomsticks' i gasped, holding back tears, so it was all a dare, Sirius didn't like me atall
'I still think this is harsh on Freya' Sirius said after a minute
'Oh, come on sirius, she'll be let out at the end of the hogsmead trip' James said annoyed
I didn't listen to anymore i turned around and ran the long way up to my dormirary.i collapsed onto my bed and cried myself to sleep. I woke up at about nine, i got up and dressed into appropriate quiddich playing gear, Lissa joined me,
'Are you alright? when i got into bed last night, you were already asleep and it looked like you'd been crying, and you never cry' Well thats a lie, i just don't let people see when i cry.
'Hmm' i replied, i wasn't much in the mood to talk. We walked into the grounds i looked around and my eyes lingered on a dog bounding around the beech tree.
'Doggy, Look a doggy, over there' i pointed at the tree, we walked over to it, it stopped and looked at us, 'Quick, look cool for the Doggy' i said through a sniff
'What's up dog?' Lissa asked, i smiled sadly and turned away from the dog and walkedd towards the Quidditch pitch
'So what is wrong?' Lissa asked me
'I really thought he liked me, but it turned out it was a dare'
'He told you that?'
'No i overheard him and James'
'thats horrible'
'it felt gut wrenching and heart breaking' i sobbed, i looked back at the dog that was bounding around the tree again, it cocked its head to the side when it saw me, i looked back at Lissa
'Don't cry, Remember to smile, it makes people insecure and wonder what you are thinking about, anyways we can make this work to your advantage'
'We can?' i sniffed
'Hell yes we can, noone makes my friend cry and gets away with it'
'you coming to quiddich tryouts?'
'Yeah! chaser baby!' she said pretending to throw a quaffle, i laughed as we made our way down to the quiddich pitch, i wiped my eyes, i could always count on Lissa to cheer me up. We got to the quiddich pitch and set up the balls, and other things that would be needed for the tryouts, once we were finished people turned up to try out and to watch, i ignored the spectators,
'Right everyone split into chasers, keepers and beaters, keepers in a group over there, keepers over there, yes there, oi you' i said as i spotted two of the new first years grinning sheepishly
'Yeah?'
'Firsties aren't allowed, come back next year' they sighed and walked back to the stands where a group of first years high fived them.
'Right now i want two keepers, you two, get up to the hoops, and now i want six chasers, right now i want you to act like this is a proper quiddich match, i'll be letting the bludgers out shortly, well off you go' the ones i picked jumped onto their brooms and circled above me, i threw the quaffle up
'Now there are only four beaters, all of you up there now' they and took off with bats, i released the bludgers before i kicked off hard from the ground and i emediatly felt the rush of wind fly through my hair, making me forget all my problems, i watched as they played, the teams swapped half way through and after an hour and a half we were all back on solid ground
'Right i have made my desision, i will post it on the Ravenclaw notice board, fairwell' i grabbed my broom and walked away from the excited and chatting people, i sighed and was joined by Lissa.
'How was i?' i asked nervously
'Bloody brilliant, well done'
'Lunch?'
'Lunch' so we skipped off to the great hall.
