I woke up again, yawning. Why must I wake up yawning every time?
I meet Harry in the common room. "Hello."
"Hi." Harry says. "I had the weirdest dream last night, but I can't even remember it. Is that strange?"
"No. I don't remember dreams all the time." I reply. "You dream all the time, every night. The only thing is that you don't remember."
"Morning Harry!" Ron says as he comes racing down the stairs to where Harry and I wait. Really Ron, is there any reason to be running? Guess so.
"Time to go!" I say. I am an impatient person at times, but can I help that? Well maybe, but no.
We end up running to the Great Hall. What a hypocrite I am. Anyway, people from every house except Gryffindor, because we got enough of him last night, were staring at Harry. I felt bad for him. All around us you could hear people whispering, 'oh, there he is!' or, 'did you see his face, his scar?' It was very rude.
Eventually, I got really mad and yelled, "Do any of you mind? We are just trying to get to breakfast and all we hear are these stupid comments? Do you think we can't hear you?" At that moment I turn around and face Harry and Ron. Their mouths form a perfect 'o' from the surprise. I walk ahead of them, smoking.
"We need to keep her around when we are in a fight or something." I hear Ron say in a whisper behind me. I smirk and turn to face him.
"I'd love to stay by you Ron," I say, pretending that he meant for me to hear. "If you don't mind a girl protecting you."
This seemed to catch him off guard. "Uh, of course not. I don't mind one bit." This cause Harry and I to snicker, and Ron glared at us.
After breakfast we went to our first class. Harry looked so confused; he kept staring at the pictures and how they moved.
"Don't worry," I said reassuringly. "I still haven't gotten used to it." He smiled.
The week went well. I kept reading what would happen to Harry during potions at night when the lights went out. Never before, only after.
I was wondering if I should give Harry the answer. Eventually, I decided that I will help him learn and I would pick random facts out of the book. Part of my plan wasn't clear, Hermione and her presence.
Nobody really likes her; we all just tolerate her presence. Once, I heard Percy release a sigh at dinner because she wouldn't leave him alone. You feel bad for her after awhile, but then she buts into your conversation saying how that's not possible. Yeah, one thing, I say when something is possible, not her. She doesn't even know what will happen to her in the future.
I found Harry in the common room again. He's there every morning; it's starting to worry me. "You okay? You're here every morning."
"I'm fine." He says. "You need something?"
"Not really," for some reason I feel really embarrassed. "I was just wondering if you wanted to review some things with me before we go into Snape's class. He might try to prove that fame isn't everything or degrade you or something." I fling my hands in the air for dramatic effect.
"Yeah, sure. That sounds great, Katie." He smiles at me. "Never know what Snape's got under that robe of his."
"Great! We can review after classes today. I'll be waiting." I reply cheerily. I had to turn away before I said something or did something out of happiness.
Halfway through the day I guess I was smiling like a lunatic because Hermione had the nerve to talk to me. For some reason I was insulted.
"What's with that stupid grin plastered on your face?" She says like the smarty she is. "It makes you look dumb."
"Says you." I reply in my snotty voice because I was having such a good day until she started talking to me.
She is majorly insulted and lets out a rather large gasp. "What did you say to me?"
"I'm sorry, but I didn't ask you to talk to me." I reply. "Now, I am going to walk away now before this little tiff losses Gryffindor points. If you haven't noticed, I am very competitive." My back faces her and I walk away.
Harry's Perspective(Just this once ;D)
(Maybe…)
Harry and Ron were sitting in the Great Hall eating lunch at about the same time Katie was having a not-so-friendly chat with Hermione. Harry had thought Katie's enthusiasm about their study meeting was unnatural for her. Never, not once had he seen her so excited. She usually was unemotional, but she appeared overwhelmed with joy.
"Hey, Ron." Harry started "Katie was talking with me today and she seemed really happy because I agreed to study with her tonight. Any ideas why?"
"Harry!" Ron gasped. "She asked you to study with her? Wow, I wish a girl like her would want to spend time with me."
At that moment Katie walked in. She smiled at him and Ron and sat across from them. "Hey. Ron, I was wondering if you would teach me to play wizard chess." She stared intently at him.
I guess Ron got his wish, Harry thought. Then he felt a ping of jealousy. Why would he feel jealous that Katie was talking to Ron? He was going to get all of her tonight. (Okay, I'll admit, that sounds wrong and I didn't mean it in that way.)
"Yeah, sure Katie." Ron said slightly flabbergasted. "When do you want me to start?"
"Tomorrow evening would be nice." Katie responded.
Ron looks at her in confusion. "Why not tomorrow afternoon?"
"Okay, tomorrow afternoon, after potions." And in a quiet voice she said, "If nothing shows up."
"You were saying?" I (Harry) say to Ron.
"Uh, I thought she likes you, but then she asked me to play wizard chess."
"Why would she like me?" I say, laughing.
"Because she adores you," Ron continues, coming out of surprise. "She stood up for you, she follows you around, she asked you to spend time with her!"
"She asked to spend time with you too, and she has been following you around too!"
"Only because we are always together."
"Eh, I'll ask her if there was any reason to study tonight. Then we'll se who's right."
"Good plan." And that was the end of their conversation. They headed to their next class.
Katie's PerspectiveShe sighed. Not once did she expect Harry to be sitting with Ron at the table with Harry. She should have known though, they are always together, but she got what she went for. Right?
The reason she went was so she could teach Ron some strategies she had learned from Sam at home when she played chess with him. There was a four-move checkmate that she intended to teach him. She wanted no one to get hurt, especially Ron, when they played against the life-sized pieces later.
Oh, one last piece of information; if you expect her to be in all of Harry and Ron's classes, you'd be correct! Good job! They were sitting in History of Magic, which she finds very interesting except for the teacher, when Harry looks over at her. It was a brief glance, but went unnoticed. Ron noticed, and so did Hermione. In fact, I think the whole class noticed except for the teacher. Little movements intrigue us, especially in this class. I think I heard a snicker. I growled. I couldn't wait for tonight.
I wait in the common room until Harry shows up, searching for the pages with the specific items that Snape asks for; asphodel, wormwood, bezoar, monkshood, wolfsbane. I have their page numbers memorized when he comes down.
His hair is wet from a recent bath and he has a towel rapped around his neck. I think Ron dressed him or something because those clothes I see on him have never been worn together. It was weird.
"Was the water warm?" I ask.
"Huh? Oh! No, Ron just yelled…" He paused.
"Do continue, oh powerful Harry." I say while I do a bow in my chair. He blushes.
"Well, these are his exact words," another pause. "'Harry, you need to be clean for your date with Katie.'" I raised my eyebrows and couldn't help but laugh. "What? What's so funny?"
"Nothing. Just, Ron doesn't seem like the type to say that."
"I think he's jealous of me, of the connection he thinks we have."
"I have no more of a connection with you than I do with him." At this Harry looks upset, but I don't dwell on it. "Okay, time for studying. I have picked out a few things to start." I show him the topics Snape is supposed to ask tomorrow. We go through the first chapter and the begging of the second before it is time to go to bed. I made sure that Harry memorized Snape's questions before we went to a hopefully peaceful sleep.
Was Snape in for a surprise tomorrow! To him, fame wasn't anything, but I needed Harry to know those things so we could prove him wrong. Was it going to be exciting!
Readers! Thank you for reading chapter 6! Everything about this chapter made me all tingly, it's a good feeling! Weird milestone achieved! When I was typing this, I had an odd number of views. Drum roll pleeeeeaaaaaasssseeeee… 123 views! No really! There really were 123 views. Yay! Over 100 views. Gooooooooooooooo me! Thank you for reading. Please review…- wolfhound22