Ah, moving towards the Christmas holidays, where Katherine goes to her own house and the twins disagree with it. There also a food fight, ah, so much fun the twins have pissing Katherine off.

"You going home for Christmas Kat?" Angelina asked suddenly, drawing Katherine into the conversation.

"No she's coming to our place again!" Fred and George announced.

"Yeah, I'm going home Ang," Katherine replied, as usual ignoring the twins rather than arguing with them, "I know how to cover it up when my hair flashes now, though it's been normal for a while now so I'm not sure how bad it's going to be."

"I think it's kind of cool, though it'd be better if you could choose what colour it was," Alicia said thoughtfully.

"It was red when we were flying though," Katie pointed out, "Is Oliver still trying to recruit you?"

"Yes," Katherine laughed, "Every single time you guys have practise he tries to coerce me towards the pitch. He walked in on me talking to McGonagall once and started making a big fuss before he realised who was in the room, funniest thing ever!"

"I remember that!" Alicia nodded, laughing at the memory, "He was so solemn when he finally got to the pitch! He looked like someone died."

"What do you mean you're not coming to our place?" Fred demanded, apparently having ignored the rest of the conversation.

"I mean I won't be at your house over the holidays," Katherine replied, rolling her eyes, "I do have my own family you know."

"He's just a little surprised because you didn't tell us," George amended.

"I don't have to tell you guys everything, you know?" Katherine pointed out, "And last year you practically forced me to come remember?"

"Yeah, but you enjoyed yourself right?" Fred argued, "And Mum would love to see you again."

"Please tell me you are not trying to guilt me into spending Christmas with you," Katherine demanded, "I'm not going to break my promise to Theodore two years in a row, so you should leave it alone." The twins frowned at her for a moment as she continued eating, before shrugging it off and returning to their conversation with Lee, though Fred still looked slightly put out.

"I love how she does that," Katie mumbled, the other two girls nodded in agreement. Katherine turned to look at them, cocking her head to the side.

"Does what?" She asked, eyebrows furrowing as she thought over the conversation. All the other girls turned and stared at her before turning into a quick huddle.

"You think she really doesn't realise?"

"No way! She totally goes after them when they're being stupid."

"She is fairly oblivious about some things though…"

"No, I still don't think she could have missed that."

"C'mon, she'd got to know something like that! She uses it against them all the time, right?"

"I don't think that's how she looks at it…"

"Guys, I can hear you," Katherine pointed out. They all jumped in surprise, turning their heads to see Katherine complete poker face, emotionless and incredibly creepy. The boys, recognising the tone of voice had also turned to look at her, before leaning aware from the clearly irritated look on her face.

"What'd you do?" Lee hissed.

"We were just…" Alicia tried, but, considering current company decided against continuing. Just because the twins had left them alone after their prank because they felt guilty about ignoring Katherine in no way suggested that it was ok to discuss the odd control over them Katherine seemed to have. It was a bad idea to bring it up, they got offended.

"Katherine!" A voice called suddenly, "What are you doing tomorrow?"

"I'm sleeping and then I'm studying, which will be happening right about the time you're at practise, so have fun with that," Katherine replied, turning to look at Oliver with an expression that clearly showed this conversation was irritatingly familiar.

"Well, what about today?" Oliver tried, not even attempting to deny that he was there for Quiddich.

"The Ravenclaw's have the field today," Katherine replied, "Besides, I'm pretty sure your team would try to kill you if you changed the date on such short notice."

"She has a point Oliver," Angelina pointed out, "We have homework to do."

"How do you even know Ravenclaw has the pitch?" Oliver asked dully.

"I eavesdrop," Katherine replied unabashedly, "It's a bad habit, I picked it up from those two." The twins grinned proudly as she gestured at them before turning to Oliver.

"She's right about practise you know," Fred pointed out.

"Besides she's got plans," George added, Fred nodded.

"Very carefully thought out plans."

"That she absolutely cannot cancel."

"Not for anything."

"So, sorry, but no practise today."

"Dammit, you two, turning my own arguments against me," Katherine groaned.

"It's a bad habit, we picked it up from you," the twins replied together, grinning widely.

"Oh, now you're just being cruel," Katherine answered, "So do I get to know my plans for today?"

"Nope," Fred chuckled, popping the p, before he returned to his own breakfast.

"But it's very unlikely we'll get detention," George offered.

"You two will never change will you?" Katherine sighed, the twins merely grinned at her.

…

"So basically you just wanted to spend another day in Hogsmead," Katherine said as they sat in the Three Broomsticks, sipping their butter beer.

"Well, essentially."

"Yes, yes we did."

"You know we can come legally next year, why are you so insistent on coming when we're not supposed to?" Katherine asked, though she wasn't actually complaining. Madam Rosmerta made some great food.

"Because things are more fun when we're not supposed to be doing them," Fred offered.

"Well, can't argue there," Katherine replied thoughtfully. She was rather attached to her Animagus plan at the moment, and it was a major reason for her continued insistence not to join the Qwidditch team. At the rate she was working she figured it'd be done by the end of forth year at the earliest, start of fifth year at the latest.

"That was an odd response," George informed her, jolting her away from her thoughts.

"Was it?" She asked, "I didn't even notice, guess you two really are rubbing off on me."

"What rules have you been breaking?" Fred asked accusingly.

"None," Katherine replied easily, "Except, you know, the ones with you two, like being in Hogsmead, the truth or dare game, all the dares from said game, our regular visits to the kitchens and endless lies to teachers."

"Pfft, good point," George nodded.

"To breaking rules!" Fred announced, holding up his glass.

"To truth or dare!" George countered.

"To idiotic red heads!" Katherine ended, clapping their glasses together.

"I'm pretty sure we just got a toast Georgie," Fred gasped.

"Well yes it appears we did Fred old boy," George agreed. Katherine rolled her eyes at them and finished her drink.

A little while later and the trio were calmly wandering through the crowds of Hogwarts students, most of whom were using the last Hogsmead trip before Christmas to buy presents. Katherine was a little ahead of the boys, just wandering around aimlessly.

"Guys! Look at that!" She called suddenly, pointing into the sky. Fred and George both looked up with frowns.

"It's a bird," Fred explained.

"It's a falcon," Katherine countered, going at a run to keep the bird in sight.

"Are there even falcons around here?" George asked as they chased after Katherine.

"How should I know?" She asked, not slowing at all, "But it's a Wizarding area, it could be someone's pet." They stopped at the fence blocking off the Shrieking Shack, with Katherine staring after the bird.

"Or, it could be an Animagus," George pointed out, watching the bird fly off curiously. Neither of the twins noticed Katherine's slight twitch at the word.

"Why were you so interested in it, Kat?" Fred asked.

"I don't know," She replied, "I just think they're cool. Falcons are impressive birds. Oh, guys, we should be getting back!"

"Right!"

"Guy's we don't need to owl! We can use our mirrors! Besides if I send Tenebris it'll take at least a week to get him back from Charlie!"

"Ok, so you'll Mirror then?" Fred asked.

"What about Ginny?" George challenged.

"I'm going home, you cannot guilt trip me into spending Christmas with you!"

"Katherine!" Ginny called suddenly.

"I only just stepped off the train, how did you find me?" Katherine sighed.

"I'm observant," Ginny replied, "C'mon, everyone's waiting."

"Ginny, I'm not coming to your place this year," Katherine said, "I'm going to my place."

"Katherine dear, how are you?"

"Hello, Mrs Weasley, I'm good thanks," Katherine grinned, "Anyway, I gotta find my father. Have a good Christmas everyone!"

"No, wait!"

"Katty!"

"I'll send you your presents, don't worry!" Katherine yelled back, "See you at the end of holidays!"

"So did you guys have a good holiday?" Katherine asked as she seated herself on the train. Everyone mumbled assent, except Fred, who acted as though he hadn't heard her.

"He's not talking to you right now," George summarised.

"Really?" Katherine asked, "It was because of your presents wasn't it? I'm sorry Fred, I'll send you another mirror next time, I just didn't realise you were so vain."

"Oh, you're so funny," Fred replied huffily.

"Aren't I though?" Katherine answered, "So you going to tell me why your actually grumpy? As you have already spoken to me."

"You hardly Mirrored," Fred said, making a face.

"You made that word up," Katherine pointed out, "And I'm terribly sorry that I wanted to spend Christmas with my family. I hope you can find it in yourself to forgive me."

"Don't mock me."

"Ah, but it's so entertaining Freddie," Alicia broke in, making everyone else chuckle.

"I will get you," Fred threatened, only to receive a couple of eye rolls. Why was it none of his friends took his threats seriously?

"Anyway, two more matches this year," Katherine said, "Think you've gotten a better Seeker?" She received a few dark looks at this comment, it was the general consensus of her friends that she should be playing Seeker.

"C'mon Kat," Angelina whined, "We all know you can fly, and you've got brilliant reflexes, why won't you play?"

"Because I want to focus on my studies, not to mention that I often have to help you keep up with classes around practise," Katherine half lied, more dark looks, "Look, let's compromise. If you don't get a good Seeker by next year I'll join ok?"

"Really?" Fred asked immediately, receiving a dark look form Katherine.

"Of course, I keep my promises," She said firmly, "Unless there's extenuating circumstances. Like my hair being dyed red."

"So basically we should avoid having anyone dye Katherine's hair between now and next year's tryouts," Lee summarised, making a few people laugh.

"So is Katie with her other friends?" Katherine asked.

"Yeah, she wants to make sure she's still got friends in her own year," Angelina explained, "Apparently we're monopolizing her spare time."

"So, you two have anything planned for the rest of the year?" Lee asked the twins.

"But of course!" Fred exclaimed, "For we always have our plans of mayhem-"

"-and general trouble making!" George continued for him.

"That you would even question our great wisdom-"

"-brings us untold disappointment-"

"-and we hope that you will one day see the…OW! KATTY!

Everyone else in the compartment was laughing happily and Katherine just looked at them innocently.

"Sorry, did I hit you Fred?" she said innocently, "Thanks for the sling shot by the way."

"You got her a sling shot?" Lee asked, sounding doubtful, "Not really what I would've thought of."

"Yeah, we seem do have done a reverse gift thing this year," George explained, Fred and Katherine were busy have a mild argument, which sounded a bit like Fred chiding Katherine for not using the sling shot properly, "She gave us books."

"You gave them books?" Angelina repeated, "Aren't you supposed to be the smart one?"

"Oh Merlin, please tell me you at least opened them after you realised they were books," Katherine begged as she turned to look at George, ignoring Fred.

"Of course, they're homework helpers," Fred answered. Katherine smacked herself in the face with a great huff of annoyance while the others just watched her, confused.

"I did send instructions you know?" She grumbled, "Ok, get them out." The twins obeyed silently, the way they generally acted when Katherine was telling them off for not realising something she thought was obvious. After her talk, though, it seemed like the books were more than books, they were holding them a bit more gingerly than they had at home.

"Ok, put your hands on the front cover-oh don't be stupid, they won't bite," Katherine snapped, pulling her wand out, "I guess this is better anyway, you may have blown each other's hands off."

She mumbled a quiet incantation and the twins pulled backwards slightly as the books flashed a little-such was the nature of two people who were around explosions far more than normal-but they obediently kept their hands on their books.

"What'd you do?" Angelina asked as Katherine took both the book and flipped through them.

"Basically I turned them on," Katherine replied, tossing the books back to the twins who caught them easily, "I actually got the idea from…Anyway it's sort of like my sketchbook, in that the owner has absolute control over it, but it reacts more to your touch then to permission or anything. If you focus on it the pages will go blank and you can write down prank plans or something. As soon as someone else looks at it though, it goes back to looking like a homework planner. So you will want to put some stuff in there, or it'll look suspicious. If you want to show it to someone else you can, but you have to holding it the whole time and, I'm actually not sure how it'll work with twins, but it's supposed to reacted to your magic signature so you two will have to work that out on your own."

Everyone just gaped at her as she sat back down, shuffling through her bag like nothing had happened. After a moment Fred and George turned their attention to their notebooks but the others continued to stare at her.

"Wait, Kat, where do you find this stuff?" Lee demanded, sounding totally disbelieving.

"It wasn't easy, they take freaking forever to find," Katherine answered, "Though it probably didn't help that I'd only heard vague mentions of these things. The mirrors were actually easier to find."

"But, that's really complex magic it's got to be expensive," Alicia pointed out.

"No, it's fine," Katherine shrugged, "It doubles as a present for making the Quidditch team. So do all your presents by the way."

"What about Lee's?" Alicia asked.

"Oh please, he managed to get himself the commentator position around McGonagall," Katherinre laughed, "Two matches in and he hasn't been replaced? He probably deserves it even more, definitely had a harder job than you guys did."

"I think you may have broken them," Angelina said suddenly, "I haven't seen them so fixed on a book for any length of time."

"I'll fix it," Katherine replied, picking out a Bertty Botts bean. She took aim and hit Fred right in the forehead. Fred jerked away from it, bumping into George, and both boys toppled from their seats. The compartment burst into laughter as Fred and George untangled themselves.

"What was that for?" Fred snapped, looking up at Katherine.

"Ang was worried you were broken," Katherine grinned, "Plus it's lots of fun."

"And what's with the food ammunition?" George asked, picking up the offending food item.

"Convenience?" Katherine shrugged. Without warning the two red heads leapt at her, Katherine moved out of the just in time. Fred landed on the floor again while George collided with Angelina.

"Well, I'm going for a walk," Katherine informed the compartment, "And I'm taking the ammo." With that she slid out the compartment door and started running down the train.

"Kat! Get back here!" Fred yelled, taking off after her.

"Sorry Angie," George said, grabbing some of the other sweats around the compartment, "Fred wait up! I got more ammo!"

"Think we should stop them?" Lee asked.

"No way," Alicia replied, "Those three are fast, and they never run out of energy!"

"Besides, if they get it done on the train their less likely to do something insane at dinner," Angelina added.

"Fair point," Lee nodded, "So wanna put bets on who wins?"

…

"Out of the way!" Katherine yelled, a fair bit ahead of the twins due to the head start and her higher speed, "Weasley twins coming through!"

At the words 'Weasley twins' everyone pulled out of the way, jumping into compartments without any thought as to who was inside. To be fair the fact that Katherine was barrelling down the train without any sign of showing probably helped. Suddenly something flew past Katherine head. Confused, she watched the jelly bean bounce off a wall into a compartment.

"Damn I missed," She heard Fred hiss as they charged after her. She poured a couple of beans into her hand and began throwing them backwards at the twins.

"Return fire!" George yelled, Katherine ducked in time to avoid a liquorice wand one of them had thrown at her.

"Out of the way!" Katherine yelled, pushing herself faster.

"Katherine!"

"We're gonna to get you!

"Only if you can catch me!" Katherine yelled back, attempting to dodge the food while she threw stuff back at them. She was faster though, and was getting further and further away from them.

"Kat?" asked Charlie's voice. Katherine turned to look at him and proceeded to collide with him because he was standing in the middle of the isle.

"Moron," Katherine snapped, "Didn't you hear me yelling to clear the way?"

"Yes, the whole train did," Charlie sighed, "These guys convinced me I should check it out."

"Katherine looked into the compartment to see a bunch of other seventh years looking at her curiously, and a whole lot of sweets.

"I'm taking these," She announced, grabbing the stuff nearest her, "I'll pay you back later, promise!"

"Hey that's ours," one of the boys snapped.

"Yep, and now it's ammo, so toughen up," Katherine replied, "Their gonna catch up soon, I got to go. See ya later dragon boy!"

"Are we not going to stop her Charlie?" One of the more mellow boys asked.

"No way, I don't want to be on the receiving end of one of her tempers," Charlie replied, "Besides, chasing after her means you'd be between her and the twins. That's basically a death sentence, anyway, she said she'd pay us back."

"Out of the way Charlie!" Fred yelled, charging down the corridor.

"We're gaining on her!" George announced.

"No that's probably because she stopped when she ran into me," Charlie corrected, even as the twins went rocketing pass.

"Where'd she get the new ammo?" Fred asked, already out of hearing distance from Charlie.

"Someone must have realised we were using it for ammo and given it to her," George supplied.

"C'mon guys, I think you slowing down!" Katherine called teasingly.

"Secret attack!" Fred commanded.

"Death by chocolate frogs!" The pair screamed, pelting the frogs at her. She turned to see what they were doing and, at seeing chocolate flying towards her, instinctively caught one in her mouth, then turned and kept running. Her muffled laughter sounded rather insane as it was pretty unexpected even to her.

"No way! She caught it?!"

"Kat what are you…?"

"'atie, 'et 'e in." Katherine commanded, pushing her way into the compartment and swallowing hard.

"Who…?"

"Hello Katie's friends, you've got lots of sweets, that's good," Katherine greeted.

"Oh Merlin, you're having a food fight?" Katie demanded, "On the train?!

"They started…well no, technically I started it," Katherine replied, "But you're all involved now so either make a run for it or join me in an ambush!"

"…"

"Well I'm in," Katie sighed, "We can't get punished yet anyway, and they'd probably track me down for not joining anyway. Why are we friends with them?"

"Because they were the first Gryffindor's to talk to me and you love the mayhem?" Katherine shrugged, "If any of you want out you should probably leave soon, they weren't that far behind me and they have good aim."

Just a few moments later Fred and George threw the compartment door open only to be pelted with all sorts of sweets and a couple of Christmas hats. They both dropped what they were holding to shield themselves.

"Ok! We surrender," Fred yelled.

"You win, you win!" George agreed, trying to dodge the harder sweets.

"Yes!" Katie yelled, "Triumph for the first years!"

"Only because Katty was leading you," Fred argued, plopping himself down on one of the seats.

"Yeah, probably," one of the girls agreed.

"We're almost at school guys, you'll want to be getting back," Katie reminded them.

"Oh, right, let's get out of here," George announced, Fred and Katherine hoped up to follow him.

"See you at practice Katie," Fred called.

"Thanks for the help girls," Katherine said, waving to them, "You all did excellently!"

"See you Katty!" all the girls called, with the exception of Katie who snickered slightly.

"Just so we're clear, no one but those two call me that," Katherine informed them darkley, sticking her head back into the compartment, "Everyone else gets hexed."

"She's not kidding," Katie mattered to her friends. Suddenly Katherine was pulled from the compartment and found herself facing the floor.

"It's not nice to scare the firsties Katty," Fred informed her, as she struggled to catch her breathe.

"Dammit Fred put me down!" Katherine snapped once the world had stopped spinning.

"Nope, this is my revenge for flicking beans at me."

"So what was chasing me down the train screaming 'death by chocolate frogs!'?"

"Entertainment and a waste of good food," Fred replied without hesitation.

"I hate you."

"No way, you love me," Fred replied, and Katherine could practically hear the grin in his voice.

"Yeah," she sighed, "Just a little, but your still a pain."

George gave a snort of laughter, then stumbled on something Katherine couldn't see while still fighting laughter.

"What's so funny?" She demanded, Fred and George seemed to be having one of their silent conversations, but she couldn't see their expressions.

"You still have lollies in your hair," George replied easily, "And Fred's carrying you."

"Dammit the pair of you are so annoying!"

Wasn't that fun? And next chapter is Valentine's! Which is much less liked by certain charaters (Katherine). Hope everyones enjoying reading! R & R!