A Harry Potter Fan Fiction

I don't own Harry Potter

Pre-Chapter Wind - First meeting for the DADA club at the Hogshead and Noel falls asleep on it. Noel bumps into Fred on the way to avoid being questioned about the meeting by Hermione. Fred then asks her to Madam Puddifoot's to tell her he likes her and wants to go out with her.

-Her Answer-

Fred...Fred likes me...Fred likes me and asked me out yesterday, but what did I do in return? While finished our coffees, I felt awkward around him so much that I made myself look like a blubbering idiot talking nonstop about igloos and the issues of global warming. Then he walked me back to Hogwarts and after a shower, I fell asleep and completely forgot to think about what to say to him. The right thing would be to tell him the truth. The truth…the truth was that I, Noel Marie Dumbledore, like Harry James Potter and I wasn't sorry. Okay that was a lie. I was sorry. I was sorry for Fred and his feelings for me when I couldn't return those feelings back. So I get dressed and go downstairs to see Harry and Ron doing their homework. I bet Fred didn't put his homework off for last minute like they did. Why did I like Harry again?

"Ron…ha-have you seen Fred at all today?" I ask nervously, shuffling on the balls of my feet.

"Well he was taking a shower when I came down. Why?" Ron asks looking up from his parchment. Don't say that cause I know that in a few seconds I'm gonna think about him in the shower regardless of my feelings toward him because I'm a girl and a girl has needs. Suddenly, Fred comes downstairs into the Common Room with his hair still wet and a towel was draped around his shoulder. Yup, I'm already gone to the shower place now...

Noel's Inner Theater

"N-Noel. What are you doing in here? It's the guys loo." Fred says nervously, backing into the further corner of the bath from me. How did I get in here alone with him in the first place, I do not know, but I wasn't complaining one bit.

"It's not like I haven't been in here before. Look you missed a spot on your back. Let me get it for you." I say as a loofa suddenly appears in my hands.

"You can't do that."

"Why not? I'm offering to help you."

"I'm completely naked in here."

"Then I'll get naked too and join you so you won't be embarrassed. You wash my back and I'll wash yours." His face changes, as if he was considering it. "I'm a very dirty girl."

"Yes you are."

"Then it's settled." I say, reaching for the buttons of my shirt.

"Wait."

"Now what?"

"Let me help you with that."

"Looks like I'm only dirty one here." I laugh when-

"Hey Noel what's up?" Fred asks, snapping me out of my very dirty thoughts of us in the shower together. I huff silently. Yeah, he has to interrupt me just when it was getting good. Damn, what was I here for again? Oh right talking to Fred about yesterday.

"Can I talk to you?" I ask. "Like the alone private kind of talk." Harry now looks up from his paper.

"Why can't we talk in front of them? They're too busy attempting to do their homework that they won't have enough brain cells left combined to even know what we're talking about."

"Hey, we just might." Ron argues.

"Do your homework Ron." Fred says. Ron glares at him.

"We were here first. Why don't you go talk somewhere else like Noel suggested?" Ron grumbles. I sigh, walking over to Fred, and pull him roughly up the staircase to the first empty Boy's Dormitory.

"I'm really sorry about being rough-"

"That's okay. I like it rough." He teases, making me blush.

"Look, the reason I wanted to talk to you in private is to tell you I can't go out with you. It's not that I don't like you…because I really do. I told you twice yesterday...it's just that there's someone else that I feel for in the way you feel for me." I say softly. "I'm so sorry."

"Don't be." Fred says, leaning against a bed frame. "Does he know?"

"No."

"Do you think he'd like you if you told him you liked him?"

"I don't know. He's hard to guess sometimes. Sometimes it seems like he likes me and sometimes he seems like he likes someone else." Like one minute he seems interested in me, and then once Cho is mentioned then I'm out of the picture.

"Well, if you want a guy to talk to other than my dimwitted brother and his dimwitted friend Harry, then you can talk to me." Fred says. I look at him, he looked so dejected even when he was trying to be supportive, and I rush over to pull him into a tight hug. This sucks. Why did I have to like Harry first when Fred was just as good and I know he actually likes me back? The Dormitory door opens and Harry stands in the doorway looking surprised.

"Oh sorry…I didn't mean to barge in. Drew said Derek was looking for you, but decided to go off to sleep somewhere quiet and Drew went to find Richie. Sorry again...for interrupting." Harry says, shutting the door. Drat. I pull away from Fred. It would have been dramatic if I ran after him, but what good will it do?

"He is such a git." I say, staring off at the door. Fred looks at me and I can practically see something clicking in that head of his.

"Oh I see. The one you're in like with is Harry." Fred guesses. I blush once more. "Bingo. You're right. He is a git, a git for not knowing you like him." Fred says, throwing his arm around my shoulders and I take in the warm familiar feeling I had from before again only this time I also felt closer to him than I was before.

"You know, I just realized that I think I like you more than I did before after this." I say.

"I know. I've been told I'm a smart, funny, not to mention a great guy." He jokes as we walk back downstairs to the Common Room laughing. "So I know where Derek is, but what are the other guys doing today?"

"They're spending their last free day out before school. Jake is probably in the library, David is most likely locked in one or two girl's loving embrace, and Richie and Drew are in the process of doing a well thought out practical joke on Filch and Mrs. Norris that will still get them caught no matter how well thought out their plans are." I say.

"How come?"

"They always have to brag or leave their signature behind on a practical joke of theirs. Trust me, it happens every single time."

"Well your friends last day sounds enjoyable. Want to try and do it too? Though I'm not saying that I haven't done it before with George because I've done it plenty with him." Fred grins at me. He was just as bad as me. Thanks to him I was now picturing him and George in a loving embrace of something more than brotherly love.

"Which part?" I grin back and playfully punch him in the arm.

"The last part. Get your mind out of the gutter." He says fluffing my bangs.

"It's been there for forever. Rain check?"

"Sure." He says, walking out the Portrait Hole and I plop on the open seat next to Hermione.

"Yes?" I ask Harry, who was staring at me. What was staring at me for?

"Nothing." He says, going back to his work.

"So you and my Brother." Ron says.

"Me and your Brother what?" I ask.

"You're dating." Ron says.

"Who said that?" I ask, staring very suspiciously toward my green eyed friend who was looking at everywhere except me now.

"Well Harry saw you two hugging." Ron mumbles turning back to his work.

"So if I hug someone I must be dating them? Is that it Potter? So if I were to hug Malfoy for example then does that mean we're dating too? Does it count with teachers too because I'm dying to hug Snape? And if I sleep with someone does that mean we're married?" I snap, turning on Harry. "Because then you and I would be married wouldn't we?"

"You what?" Hermione asks, dropping her book on the floor. "You used protection right? Teen pregnancy is an important issue you know. It's too bad they don't have classes for that issue here. Maybe I should bring it up with Dumbledore." She says calmly as she picks up her book and Ron's ears was turning from a faint pink to a darker red as the seconds wore on.

"It wasn't like that Hermione. Noel and I just shared a couch the night of her birthday because she was too tired and she refused to let go of my sleeve in her sleep, so I had no choice but to stay." Harry defends himself.

"You never said I did that." I accuse him. "You said nothing happened and yet now I look like some clingy person who wouldn't let go of you. Sure that sounds exactly like nothing."

"Nothing happened that night and I just said what I thought I saw. I saw you two hugging in an empty Dormitory after you wanting to talk privately with Fred with no one else around so what else was I to think? You don't have to be angry with me for making an honest mistake." Harry says.

"I'm not angry with you. I'm furious. I thought you knew me or I thought you would at least have the decency to come talk to me before sprouting rumors about me." I say, tears springing to my eyes as I run out the Portrait Hole all the way to the Dungeons. I just rejected a great guy for him! How could he be so thoughtless? I throw the door open to Severus's office, now brawling crazily. "I LIKE HARRY, BUT HE ACCUSED ME OF DATING FRED BECAUSE HE CAUGHT US HUGGING IN THE BOY'S DORMITORY ALONE!" I know I'm being a little dramatic at the moment with the yelling and the crying, but I can't help it. Harry is just so thoughtless.

"Okay. One, what were you doing hugging Mr. Weasley alone in the boy's dormitory? Two, WHAT!" Severus asks. "Not Potter. Anyone but Potter. Why not Longbottom? He's a blubbering mess at times, but he's a very nice boy compared to Potter. Potter?"

"YEAH AND I SAID IF I HUG MALFOY I MUST BE DATING HIM AND IF I SLEEP SOMEONE THEN WE'RE MARRIED AND I'VE ALREADY SLEPT WITH HARRY SO WE MUST BE MARRIED!" I continue yelling. How can he tell Ron and Hermione I'm dating Fred when it's him who I like?

"WHAT! YOU AND HIM? W-WHEN DID THIS HAPPEN?"

"ON MY BIRTHDAY. I WAS JUST SO TIRED THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I WAS DOING AND HARRY SAID IT WASN'T SUCH A BIG DEAL. HE SAID THAT FRIENDS DO IT ALL THE TIME!" I wail.

"HE SAID THAT? I'M GOING TO KILL THAT BOY!"

"It would have been a bigger deal if I made noises, but he said I was very quiet compared to Ron." I stop yelling because my throat was getting sore.

"Him and Weasley?" He asks, also in a normal tone.

"Yeah and once with Hermione in third year."

"Granger? Not her too. I thought she was smarter than that."

"Yeah her too, but I think he liked it better with me because he said Ron snores loudly."

"Snores? Now I'm confused."

"ME TOO!" I wail even more louder than before.

"Okay calm down. I'm right here." Severus says, waiting for me to calm down. "Now tell me what happened from the beginning." So I tell him what had happened all the way from my birthday until now. I even tell him about the meeting yesterday because I trusted him. He thinks about it for a minute before deciding to speak. "Here's what you do. You're not going to get emotional over everything those boys say because even they don't even know what they are saying. You know what's right and they're idiots. Then, no more being alone with them without Granger being there. I don't want to think about my precious Goddaughter and boys right now. Last, I want you visit me more often. You know I don't get that many students coming to talk to me, even though I like it like that, I miss having you here." Awww, he liked having me here. "Now do you want to help me get tomorrow's lesson ready to take your mind off this sticky subject?"

"Might as well."

"I was hoping you'd say that."

AN: Stay tuned for another chapter. :)