A Harry Potter Fan Fiction

I don't own Harry Potter

Pre-Chapter Wind - Noel wakes up and comes to the realization that she spent the night sleeping beside Harry. Harry assures her nothing happened which makes her feel better. During breakfast, one of Noel's friends comes to get her. Her friends are sorted and they perform in front of the school together.

-Confessions From A Friend-

"Ewww Filch was sniffing you. Gross…unless…" I say, leaning toward Harry to take a sniff. He smelled like soap. "You smell clean to me." I say.

"Of course I do. I took a shower this morning." Harry says.

"With soap?"

"Yes with soap."

"And shampoo?"

"Yes Mom." Harry says, looking annoyed.

"Mom my ass." I retort. "If I'm anyone's Mom, I'm my guys Mom and Hermione is your Mom hands down."

"Speaking of your guys, where are they?" Hermione asks.

"Oh, they're off exploring Hogsmeade on their own since Dumbledore gave them permission. They said they would meet us at the Hog's Head. Dumbledore gave me my permission too since he is my guardian at the moment." I say, but I didn't need to go exploring anywhere in Hogsmeade since Fred and I have already done that together.

"We aren't going to the Three Broomsticks?" Harry asks.

"Hermione didn't tell you?" I ask. "Hermione, I thought you were going to tell him."

"Tell me what? Aren't we going to the Three Broomsticks?" Harry asks.

"No…you see the Three Broomsticks is really crowded and we don't want to be overheard by anyone, so I told everyone to meet us at the Hog's Head for the meeting." Hermione says as we make our way through Hogsmeade to the Hog's Head, which left me regretting Hermione's choice of meeting spots. I'd rather go to the Shrieking Shack than here, but I'd have to deal with it since everyone was already meeting us at the Hogs Head. The place looked like it had been soaked in water and left to grow moldy and grungy, but at least we knew it was safe. I groan to myself as we walk in the dingy bar, it's just so dingy.

"Noel!" David calls and waves at me from a table he and the guys were sitting at. I walk over to them.

"Hi. Were you guys waiting long?" I ask.

"No, but we did hear some interesting news about someone you know." Richie grins.

"You found out some gossip about someone I know?" I ask. "Who did you find what about?"

"Well, we heard some gossip about a few people actually, but we'd never spill the beans." Drew says. I roll my eyes at him and look around. There was a lot of people here. Some I knew and some I didn't. No Slytherins though, no surprise there.

"Er Hello…you know why you're here. Harry-" Hermione starts and Harry interrupts her with a cough. "…I mean I had the idea that it would be good if we learned how to study DADA for real. That means us actually learning how to do it with our wands. We aren't learning anything in class, so why don't we teach ourselves how. I know I want to be trained properly how to defend myself because Voldemort is back." Hermione says. A couple people shrieked, yelped, twitched, and even shuddered. I knew why, but it seemed pretty stupid to be scared over a name. It's just a name and it's not like you summon him to your side instantly upon saying his name. I thought Voldemort was a funny name. Heh Voldymorty. Voldswagon. Very funny.

"How do you know he's back? There wasn't any proof." A boy says.

"Dumbledore believes it-" Hermione begins.

"Dumbledore believes him." The boy says, nodding to Harry. Why shouldn't he? There was no reason not to.

"Who are you?" Ron asks, quite rudely in my opinion since he didn't need to stoop down to what's his faces level.

"Zacharias Smith and I think we've got the right to know exactly what makes him say You-Know-Who's back." The what's his face, now to be revealed as Zacharias Smith, says.

"This is boring. Wake me up when it's over." I yawn, putting on a pair of sunglasses from my pocket and doze off. I wanted to show some support, but I didn't see the point in listening to this meeting if I already said I would join in. The meeting was more to convince everyone else to join in. I was really off in the land of behind my eyelids when someone nudges me awake.

"Upsie daisy Noels. We're going up to sign our names now." David says, pulling me out of my seat to the front. Almost everyone had left except for the boys and the trio.

"That went well. Don't you think so Noel? You looked so transfixed." Hermione asks excited. David snorts.

"What I heard was…er…very inspirational. Made me want to join up for the cause even more." I say slowly. I can't let her find out that heard absolutely nothing. She'll flip her lid and then some.

"What about you and Cho?" Hermione asks, turning to Harry.

"What do you mean?" Harry asks quickly. A little too quickly if you ask me. Who was this Cho? She's that Asian girl right. I think she was the only Asian girl in Hogwarts other than Su Li of course.

"She couldn't keep her eyes off of you." Hermione comments. Man, I shouldn't have taken that nap. I missed a lot. I speed up a bit and walk into someone. The person turns around and smiles.

"Sorry for bumping into you Fred." I apologize.

"How did you know it was me?" Fred asks as Hermione, Ron, and Harry catches up with us.

"I think I know you well enough by now to tell the difference between you and George."

"Well...how?"

"If you must know then I will tell you. The tones of your eyes are different. You may look alike, but you don't always think alike and you can tell how a person thinks by looking into their eyes in my opinion. I can also tell you are you by the way you smile. You have a stronger personality than George so you have a stronger smile than him, even when you are pretending to be one another." I point out. "Plus your voices are slightly different so anyone who knows you should be able to tell the difference and if they don't then they suck." I poke Fred, making him blush. How could anyone not tell them apart? I guess I just know people.

"And it took you a month to figure that out?"

"It took me two weeks with you to figure that out." I correct him.

"My Mother has known me all my life and she still sometimes forgets." He mutters to himself softly so that all I could catch was 'Mother' and 'life'.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?"

"If you're not busy, do you want to go to Madam Puddifoots with me for coffee?" Fred asks from out of the blue. We haven't been there before since we went to the Three Broomsticks last time. While we're there, maybe Fred can tell me what had happened in the meeting.

"Sure." I say, linking arms with him. "Bye guys." I wave to them. Richie and Drew were sniggering and Jake was giving them a stern look. I wonder what that was for. I follow Fred to a small teashop that looked cute, but really girly. We take a seat at a small circular table near the window.

"What can I get you m'dears?" Madam Puddifoot asks, coming to our table.

"Two coffees please." Fred says, before turning to stare out the window.

"So, where did you go before the meeting?" I ask. Fred turns from staring out the window to pick up a bag at his feet.

"I had to buy something with George and Lee." He sets the bag down and it gives a small quiver before going still. "So what did you think of the meeting and what Harry said?"

"Well…to be honest, and don't you laugh, I didn't hear a word he said cuz...I sort of...fell asleep." I say and Fred bursts out laughing, causing tables near us to turn from what they were doing to stare at us. "Stop laughing! Hermione thought Harry really hypnotized me with his words."

"And I think it's hilarious finding out that he actually hypnotized you to sleep."

"Fred! I'm serious. What did I miss?" I ask as his laughter dies down.

"You didn't miss much. It was mostly this annoying prat who wanted to know what really happened last year from Harry. Then everyone started saying all these accomplishments Harry went through over the years, you know the whole shebang." Fred says, explaining what had went on in the meeting I slept through.

"Great. Now I know what to say to Hermione if she asks again. Anyway, did you have anything that you wanted to talk to me about other than to ask me for coffee for?" I ask.

"I couldn't just ask you out for coffee for no reason?"

"You could have, but there was a reason you asked me here instead of the Three Broomsticks for coffee."

"It's cute and you're cute."

"You're not wrong about that."

"And maybe…" Fred starts trying to find the right words to say. "...you see-" Madam Puddifoot returns with our coffees. I add in six spoons of sugar and take a gulp. Mmmmmm coffee. I was tall enough so who cared if it stunted my growth. I watch Fred, who doesn't move to touch his coffee, and realize something was different.

"Fred?"

"-Noel, I realized that I-" He starts. I set my coffee down and try to figure out what he wanted to say without him having to say it. He looked like he wanted to say something really badly to me, but he was holding himself back from saying it. He was acting really odd, nothing like I've seen him be like before.

"Come on and say it. What happened to the super funny Fred that I know and like? He doesn't know how to hold anything back."

"Noel, I like you." He says, blushing.

"I like you too Fred." I say.

"You do?"

"Of course I do. You're smart, funny, and not to mention a totally great guy."

"Great." A few minutes past before what just happened sets in. Fred said he likes me and I said I like Fred. Wait what? Did I say what I think I just said?

"Wait, when you said you-that you-did you mean that you like me like me?" I ask, pointing at myself. I never noticed and for a person who knows him, I did not know about this. He was being serious when he hit on me all those times and called me attractive? Is that why Richie and Drew were laughing, because it must have been one of the gossip they heard about today? Fred wasn't bad looking himself and he's great like Harry. Hey! Why did I think of Harry just then? Fred tells me he likes me and I'm thinking of Harry. Does this mean that I have a possible crush on Harry? It does explain why I tend to over react when Harry is involved, but he's not the one in front of me confessing at the moment. Fred was, not Harry.

"I've liked you for a while now, I just didn't realize how much I really liked you until today." Fred says. A while? He's liked me for a while?

"Really?" A while is a long time.

"Yeah. Will you consider going out with me? You don't have to answer now if you're not ready because we have time. I just wanted to get it out in the open since we like each other." I nod and finish my coffee. What do I do? How am I supposed to break it to him that I can't go out with him because I think I like Harry?

AN: It's late at night and I'm uploading this chapter. What can I say? It was a long day and today was the deadline for chapter 12. I hope you enjoy it.

AN2: And don't give up for all you Harry/Noel shippers or don't get too excited Fred/Noel shippers because even I don't know how it's gonna turn out in the endgame anymore. -Shock- I don't know? Yes, it's true that I don't know...yet that is the way it is for now because I'm enjoying re-building the foundation of amor and I hope you are enjoying re-reading it. If you are then drop me a line, if you're not then drop me a line saying why you aren't.