A/N: What's got Draco's wand in a knot?
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Chapter 16 – Wouldn't you like to know?
'Malfoy!' Larissa yelled,
'Miss Black, if you would not shout inside please.' Professor McGonagall said, as she passed
'Sorry Professor.' She ran over to Draco
'What? Oh, it's you.'
'What's that supposed to mean?' She snapped
'Oh nothing.' He snapped back
'Thinking of joining the Inquisitorial Squad?' She sneered at him
'Not really, but now that you mention it…' He smirked at her, in all truthfulness, he was going to join before his cousin said anything.
'What's got your wand in a knot?' She asked coldly
'Oh nothing.' He snapped the same way he had before
'Fine. Don't tell me then.'
'What are you and Potter up to?' He said with a hint of desperation in his voice
'Wouldn't you like to know?'
'Tell me.'
'Hmmm, let me think about tha- NO.' Draco glared at her, before storming away.
'Draco, Wait!'
'What now?'
'I was just going to ask you what you wanted for Christmas.' Seeing Draco's surprised look she added 'We are cousins you know, we should get each other presents.'
'Whatever you want to get me, I suppose I'll get you something that girls like.'
'Um, okay, well bye then.' She turned and started to walk back to the Gryffindor Common Room.
Once she was there she started to think of things to get her friends and family for Christmas. A trip to Hogsmeade, was needed. She went to the notice board, and looked at the Hogsmeade times
Trips to Hogsmeade
1995 – 1996
9 September
23 September
14 October
28 October
11 November
25 November
9 December
23 December
13 January
27 January
10 February (Valentines Substitute)
24 February
9 March
30 March
13 April
27 April
11 May
25 May
8 June
22 June
'Oh good, there's one the day before my Birthday! Oh, um Christmas right… that's the day after tomorrow! And if there's any I don't get I can get them just before Christmas on the 23rd.' She said quietly to herself.
'When can the next DA meeting be?' Larissa asked Harry quietly, when he had returned to the common room, from wherever he was.
'We could do one later? No one has anything on a Thursday, Hermione?' he asked
'No one has anything on Thursday' she confirmed. Harry took out his coin and changed the date to that day, and went strait to the room of requirement.
'No one will come for about half an hour, but we should make sure that you guys will be able to help any one if they need it.'
'Okay Harry, what are we doing?'
'Erm, lets do the patronus charm.'
'Okay, Expecto Patronum,' Hermione said and a silver otter shot out of her wand, and danced around her
'Expecto Patronum.' Ron said, and a wispy Jack Russell Terrier shot out of his wand and chased Hermione's otter around the DA room.
'Expecto Patronum.' Larissa said, and a silver mist shot out of her wand, but then vanished
'What's your most powerful memory?' Harry said
'When I found out Bella was my mother?'
'Try it.'
'Expecto Patronum,' A silver mist shot out of her wand, and started to take the form of a tiger before vanishing.
'Try another,'
Larissa closed her eyes, concentrating on last year, when she and her mother had come home to find her father in the kitchen. 'Expecto Patronum!' She said, and A silver wispy tiger shot out of her wand, the other two patronus' cowered from the Tiger, and then disappeared. Harry produced his stag, and it and the tiger ran around the room a few times before vanishing, as the first few people came into the DA room.
'Hey Lissa, Harry, Ron, Hermione.' Amelia said, as she, followed by Catherine, Emily, Will, and Matthew came into the room.
'Hey,' Soon, everyone was inside and Harry had told Larissa to help Matthew, as he was struggling to make his patronus take shape.
'What memory are you thinking of?' She asked him
'When I first came into the castle,'
'Why that memory? What makes it so special?' She asked, she thought that if she could discover what was so special about that memory, then she would be able to help him either make it stronger or find a stronger one.
'It was the first time I'd felt completely happy in a while.'
'Are there any others?' Larissa asked gently
'Well, I was awfully happy when my parents got back together,'
'Try it,' she said with a soft smile, she put her hand on his arm, as he raised his other and cast the Patronus Charm. A mist shot out of his wand, and from it, emerged a huge eagle, it flew around the room, flapping it's majestic wings slowly as it glided.
'Well Done!' Larissa said, giving him a quick hug, before going to tell Harry.
'Amelia, what's your patronus?' Larissa asked, when most of the people had left
'A dove,' she said casting the Patronus Charm with ease, and Larissa watched as a small silver dove circled the room.
'Cathy?'
'Gazelle.'
Soon the room was filled, with Patronus animals. They all evaporated, and then Harry said,
'We'll only have one more lesson before Christmas.'
'Oh,' Larissa said sadly, but she knew that they would have many more lessons after Christmas.
A/N: Coincidentally, did you know that Jack Russell's are known for chasing otters?
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