The final chapter of their 2nd year! Yeah, this year went really fast, but next year is Harry's first year! I still want to hear them! Though i do have a few of my own. Hope you're all enjoying this!

Katherine stomped down the stairs, wand already in her hand and an extremely irritated look on her face. At the foot of the stairs she pointed her wand and shot of a violent spray of sparks to the mistletoe set at the top of the arch. She continued to grumble as she walked across the Common room to wait for her friends at the portrait hole, her red hair doing nothing for her mood.

"Um, should we be worried?" Katie muttered to Angelina as they came down the stairs behind Katherine.

"Nah, just don't get in her way," Angelina replied, "She did this last year too."

"Er, ok, but…why?" Katie tried, confused. Normally if Katherine had issues with anything basic like this everyone tried their best to fix it so she had as much fun as the rest of them.

"Valentine's day creates a lot of…expectations," Angeline offered hesitantly.

"And?"

"And she really doesn't like expectations," Fred answered, appearing from nowhere.

"It's best to just act as though it's a normal day," George continued.

"Fortunately it's not considered an all-out event like Halloween-"

"-if the entire castle was decorated we'd really be in trouble."

"You gotta be careful not to question her mood to much either," Alicia put in, "She knows she's making her disdain obvious but try and talk about it and you might as well be walking talking mistletoe."

"She'll be back to normal tomorrow," Lee assured, "And she'll probably spend most of today in the library anyway so it'll be fine."

"Wow, you guys have really thought this through," Katie replied, slightly stunned.

"We were caught off guard last year," Angelina answered with a grin.

"It was scary as Hell," Alicia put in.

"Yeah, and the twins spent the whole day following her around trying to convince her to explain what was wrong," Lee laughed, "Right guys?...Where'd they go?!"

"Katty!" Fred yelled, pouncing on her after crossing the room.

"We didn't finish our Potions essay," George whined.

"Help us!" They announced together.

"No," Katherine replied in surprise, "You idiot's get off! I told you to finish that!"

"Oh, but Kaaaaat!" Fred whined.

"No you moron! You'll have to finish during lunch," Katherine scolded, "Hey! Fred! Don't go through my bag! My sketchbooks in there! George! Hey give it back!"

"Right," Katie said, as they followed the trio down the stairs, "It's a normal day for us then."

…

"Kat, What are you doing?" Angelina asked confusedly. Katherine was watching the table warily, bag and legs pulled as far from it as possible. The table was practically empty, with the exception of what looked like a chocolate box and a card. She didn't look angry though, hence Angelina's confusion.

"It's for me," Katherine answered, not taking her eyes off it.

"Someone sent you a Valentine?" Angelina asked, nodding slightly, then she shook her head, "Nope, still don't get it."

"Why would someone send me a Valentine, Ang?" Katherine asked, turning her confused eyes on her friend, "My friends are basically limited to you guys and I spend Valentine 's Day ready to curse the first person who so much as mentions it to me."

"Yeah, you know I still don't…"

"Get why I have so many issues?" Katherine finished, "Or why I only told the twins? I don't, they're…incredibly persistent and no, I don't feel like talking about it. Sorry."

"Hey, it's ok," Angelina assured her, "So, explain again why the chocolates are scary."

"Because it's either from the twins and is therefore a prank that has the potential to blow up, or it's from someone who doesn't like me," Katherine answered, "The hand writing doesn't match the twins so I'm thinking the later."

"You have a very bleak outlook on things," Angelina informed her, before shrugging, "Why don't you just get someone to check it?"

"I thought about it," Katherine replied, "I'm just, mildly irritated I can't do it myself."

"Oh please," Angeline replied, "You're not supposed to know everything, if would be really irritating. Hey Charlie come here." As Charlie wandered over at the call Angelina pulled the card out of sight and waved to him.

"What's up?" Charlie asked, "I was just heading for Hogsmead."

"Well, this box was just left here and we were wondering if you could curse check it for us," Angelina replied, "You never know what to expect do you?"

"No problem," Charlie replied, "You're lucky we've got a semi-decent Defence Professor this year." The girl's watched him wave his wand and mutter an incantation, watching the box carefully.

"Nope, it's fine," He informed them, tucking his wand away, "In fact it's got a defensive spell on it to keep out tampering. Anyway, I'm off to Hogsmead."

"Wonderful, so you going to eat those?" Angelina asked, scanning the card, "It says enjoy, and that you should smile more."

"That's not funny Ang," Katherine replied, opening the box, "Oh! These are my favourites!"

"Really?" Angelina asked, "Well, that's impressive, it must have been a Gryffindor though, to get into the Common room."

"Or they could have a friend in Gryffindor," Katherine replied, sucking happily on one of the chocolates, "I'm going to do some drawing."

"Ok, I'm going to find Alicia, see ya."

"Bye."

Angelina laughed a little at the sight of Katherine, already with her sketch book out, sucking on chocolate and discretely slipping the card into her book before her pencil started moving across the page. Turning her head forward she stopped just in time to avoid bumping into one of the twins.

"Hello, what'cha doin'?" Ah, it was Fred.

"I'm going to find Alicia," she replied, walking past him to continue up the stairs.

"Hey Angie," George greeted.

"Hey, what are you to doing?"

"Crouching in an archway watching Katherine eat chocolate."

"Why?"

"Because it's extremely entertaining."

"Right."

"There was a fifty/fifty chance that she was going to blow up the table," Fred pointed out.

"If you say so," Angelina answered with a shrug, leaving them to their crouching.

"Ok Fred, she's eating it, can we go now?"

"Yeah, I guess."

"She so owns you."

"Yeah, well, you put chocolate's on Angie's pillow so you've got no room to talk."

"Fair enough."

"And Angelina bolts across the pitch, exceptional speed and grace, as always," Lee called through his loud speaker. Katherine snickered a little, he'd already gotten in the habit of it. He continued his commentary unabashed, "And with a skilled pass to Andrew she keeps the Quaffle away from those Hufflepuff Chasers."

"The Hufflepuff Beater sends a Bludger for him, and it looks right on course, and…Oh! A brilliant save by one of the Weasley twins! Those bats sure can withstand a fair bit, can't they folks? That's got to be some tough wood. Bet you never considered that, Beaters do it with Wood folks. It's the undeniable truth in a situation like…BLOODY HELL!"

"Jordan!"

"Sorry Professor," Lee replied immediately, eyes wide, "Forgot about the protective charms and such. Suddenly glad I'm not on the Quidditch team, those Bludgers are scary as anything up close." Beside him Katherine was rolling in the stands, howling with laughter and gasping for air. The game continued despite the Bludger to the crowd, it was hardly the worst thing that ever happened.

"Oh, Merlin," Katherine gasped, "They…are going…to kill you!"

She missed most of the rest of the game due to her laughter. Hufflepuff won in the end, the Seeker still wasn't brilliant. It was close though, which was a plus. Lee vanished after the match, probably because not only were the twins prowling around looking for him but so was Oliver. Katherine and the other girls were having a right laugh about it.

"Oh man, what idiocy made him think that wouldn't get him killed?" Alicia asked.

"Who knows," Katie replied, "But it was so funny!"

"I know!" Angelina agreed, "I almost fell off my broom!"

"So did Oliver," Alicia snickered.

"Kat, what's up?" Katie asked.

"Huh? Oh, um, just realised, I may have given Lee the idea…" Katherine mumbled.

"What?!" The girls demanded together.

"Katherine!" yelled the twins as they stormed into the Common room.

"Yes?" Katherine asked innocently.

"Lee said you gave him the idea for his 'joke' during the Quidditch match," Fred said.

"That wouldn't happen to be true, would it," George challenged.

"Well, when you say, 'gave him the idea'," Katherine started, both boys glaring fiercely at her, "We were just talking and I was explaining about how Beater's bats are magically reinforced because normal wood would never be strong enough. He then realised about wood and Wood and suddenly began snickering and said he was going to go plan his next commentary."

There was silence for a moment where the twins looked like they were trying to work out who they were supposed to go after now.

"Anyway, face it," Katherine pointed out, "If it wasn't about you, you would have totally backed him up." The twins groaned in acknowledgement, flopping down onto the sofa.

"Why are we friends with her?" George asked.

"Because I'm an evil, manipulating, two faced monster?" Katherine offered.

"Oh yeah," the twins responded in deep sighs.

"Cheer up," Katherine replied, "It'll have blown over by next year. Besides, you two aren't the only Beaters, and who's going to keep up a joke against the roughest Quidditch players?"

"Well that's a point," Katie nodded, "The joke could apply to the Beaters of any house."

"Yep, if anyone's going to suffer it'll be Oliver," Alicia agreed.

"Fair point," George said.

"So what are we doing now?" Fred asked.

"Merlin you two recover quick," Angelina informed them.

"This is nice," Alicia sighed as she stretched out across the grass.

"Yeah," Angelina agreed, "But it feels like this half of school went really fast, doesn't it?"

"True," Alicia nodded, "It's probably just because things were so hectic right before Christmas. You know, with truth or dare and everything else."

"True," Angelina replied, then turned to look up in the tree behind them, "Kat, why are you up there?"

"Because down there I'm within reach?" Katherine suggested from her seat in the tree. She was sitting on one of the branches leaning against the trunk and sketching in her book.

"Of what? The boys aren't even here yet," Alicia replied, "And didn't we agree to come down in swimsuits?"

"I am in a swimsuit," Katherine answered, "I'm wearing robes over it because it's more comfortable."

"So, you plan on staying up there the whole time?" Katie asked as she wandered over to them, "Where are the guys?"

"Yes, and they're still in the castle," Katherine announced, "I think they're plotting something."

"Well, it's not unlikely," Alicia said.

"Hey, didn't you have to choose new classes for next year?" Katie asked, "How did that go?"

"Well we all got it in," Angelina replied, "But I think varying levels of thought were put into it."

"I want to do something interesting," Alicia snapped, "I'll work out what I'm going to do when I leave another time."

"I've known for ages which classes I was going to do," Katherine put in, "I'm pretty sure Fred and George just chose things at random, or the ones they thought would be easy to pass."

"Kat what are you drawing?" Angelina asked, looking up at her again.

"The lake," Katherine answered, "And you guys."

"What?!" Alicia demanded, "Who said you could?"

"I've drawn you before," Katherine pointed out, "Besides, the views really good from here."

"I told you they'd be here already!" Lee's voice announced, running towards them, closely followed by Fred and George. They were all in trunks with towels thrown over their shoulders.

"Where's Kat?" Fred asked.

"Here," Katherine called, finally looking away from her page, "Good to see you could join us."

"Why are you up there?" George asked, giving her an odd look.

"Because I know you," Katherine replied, closing her book and organising it so it sat on the branch with her other stuff, "Besides I felt like drawing something and the grounds are better from higher up."

"So will you come down now?" George tried.

"And how come you're in robes?" Fred questioned.

"No, and I'm wearing my swimsuit underneath," Katherine answered.

"Well you're no fun," Lee announced, "Pass the food."

Evidently the boys had passed the kitchens or something as they'd brought a picnic with them. 'Picnic' being a very loose term for whatever food they'd felt like at the time and having no relevance to actual picnic food. Still, the house elves never let you down, everything looked delicious as they spread it out.

"So you coming down now Kat?" Alicia asked, turning to find Katherine was already munching on a biscuit, her wand in her hand, "That's cheating."

"Since when do you side with the boys?" Katherine challenged, "And we are at a magic school, using magic is completely within the rules."

"Smart ass," Fred and George replied, Katherine grinned.

A little while later and they'd eaten a fair portion of the food and were happily lazing around in the grass, with the exception of Katherine who had stretched herself out on her tree branch with one leg hanging over the side. She was happily sucking on an almost finished chocolate frog with her eyes closed while she listened to the others talk, giving her own muffled input whenever she felt like it. Though right now she was actually more focused on her own thoughts than what the others were actually talking about.

"Ok, bored now," Fred announced as he and George stood up to stretch.

"Wanna come swimming anyone?" George offered as Fred ambled over to Katherine's tree.

"Down we come!" He announced, pulling on her leg and catching her over his shoulder. Katherine yelled loudly as she was literally pulled from her thoughts and quickly struggled to regain her breath once she'd gotten her bearings.

"Bloody Hell Fred!" she snapped, "Put me down!"

"Nope," Fred replied, popping the p. Katherine looked towards where he was walking, seeing the lake in a very upside down way.

"No!" She snapped, struggling to get free, her wand had been left in the tree, "Fred, no! Robes! I'm in robes! C'mon put me down! I am so going to kill you! Let me go! Dammit Fred! I don't want to go in the lake! PUT, ME, DOWN!"

"Ok," Fred replied, throwing her forward into the lake, and grinning as she yelled again at the sudden movement. The others all laughed as they joined him at the edge of the water. They stood there, waiting for her to come up and yell some more, waiting…

"Oh, Hell," Fred announced, diving into the water.

"Er, should we go get someone?" Lee asked.

"No," Angelina replied, "Katherine can swim no problem, she just didn't feel like going in."

"Oh, so we should get someone to help Fred then?" George suggested. Suddenly the two burst up from the water and there was a very comical moment as the shore group all tilted their heads to the side in confusion. Katherine had somehow gotten her legs around Fred's neck and they appeared to be water wrestling, while they both gasped for air.

"I told you no, you bloody idiot!" They heard Katherine scream, "Listen to me next time! For Merlin's sake you are such a…"

"Katty! Don't!" Came Fred's yelled reply, "I'm gonna…" And the pair toppled back into the water as Fred apparently lost his footing.

"Ok…anyone else want to jump in?" Katie asked, wadding into the water.

"The water, sure," Alicia replied, "Their fight, not so much."

…

Katherine stomped out of the water, Fred having finally given up and called mercy was floating around, looking like a partially drowned animal.

"Kat, you leaving?" Katie called, watching her walk over the grass. Katherine looked back with a smile.

"I'll be right back," she called, "I just want to take off the robes."

"If she was willing to come in anyway why did she have to make such a fuss?" Fred grumbled, paddling up to the others.

"Because you forced her in against her will?" Angelina suggested.

"Not to mention that you pulled her out of a tree," Alicia pointed out.

"And then threw her into the lake," Katie finished.

"Ultimately," Lee summarised, "Not your best plan ever."

"Ok fine, so I didn't fully think it through," Fred huffed, "But she almost killed me!"

"Don't exaggerate," Katherine snapped, stepping back into the water know that her robes were hanging up to dry. Fred turned to reply and the kind of froze.

Right, swimmers, He reminded himself, Swimmers as in not robes. But…why does she have those?

"What?" Katherine demanded as her friends all stared unabashedly at her, Katie with an extremely smug expression, "Do you lot have a problem? Katie gave it to me."

Katherine could swim, and rather enjoyed it, but she didn't really think it would be a common activity at school and had, therefore, left her own swimmers at home. When she'd found out Katie had wasted no time in announcing that she had a spare set that didn't fit her, and would probably fit Katherine. It basically looked like a bikini with the top and bottom connected over her stomach with an extra line of material.

"Yes, yes I did," Katie announced, sounding immensely proud of herself. She was so evil. Katherine sighed and dived into the water, an actual, elegant dive that jolted the others from their staring.

"Katie? When did this happen?" Alicia demanded, rounding on the younger girl.

"I had a swimsuit that didn't fit," Katie shrugged, "Kat didn't bring one so I give it to her."

"Yeah, and you convinced her to wear it, how?" Angelina asked.

"I pointed out that she was going to end up in the lake one way or the other," Katie answered.

"You are a very twisted child," Lee informed her. Katie merely grinned widely at him.

"You don't even know the half of it," she replied, purposefully avoiding looking at Fred, who was currently having a hissed conversation with George about…something. Her grin widened.

"Guys, please stop talking about me," Katherine suggested, head popping up between the two groups.

"Holy…!" Fred and George announced loudly, falling backwards. She did just kind of pop out of nowhere. She rolled her eyes and stood up properly to shake out her hair and get water out of her ears before sinking back down so that only her head was above the water. They had to stay in pretty shallow waters due to the lack of wands.

"Hey Kat, how long can you hold your breath?" Lee asked while the twins recovered themselves.

"I don't know, a while?" Katherine offered, "I've never really thought about it."

"Oh! Let's have a race!" George announced excitedly.

…

"Dammit, it's not fair!" Fred announced, "How come you're so fast on both land and water?"

"I don't know," Katherine announced, wringing out her hair, "Family, practise, mass amount of performance enhancing potion?"

"…"

"That was a joke guys," Katherine sighed, "I just am, same as Fred and George are good at pulling pranks, or how Ang is basically a natural born leader."

"I am?" Angelina asked.

"So long as you're not under too much pressure," Alicia nodded.

"An excellent day-to-day leader," Katie summarised.

"I'm not sure if this is still a complement," Angelina replied with a frown.

"'Kay, everyone mostly dry? We gotta head back," George commanded.

"Well I think this was a good way to end the year!" Lee announced as they wandered up to the tower.

"Yeah, kinda boring though, with Professor Ashbury's departure," Fred agreed.

"Wait, what's boring about that?" Alicia asked, eyebrows knitting together.

"Because temporary insanity is less entertaining for them than an explosion," Katherine replied, Fred and George laughed.

"Wonder what'll happen next year," George said.

"Ron's coming to Hogwarts," Katherine pointed out thoughtfully, "And, hmm."

"Theodore," Lee offered, Katherine rolled her eyes at him.

"Yes, because I forgot my own brother's name," she said, "Anyway, I think we missed dinner, who's for food?"

"Fair point," Fred nodded, then waved the others off, "You guys go on, we'll bring food up to the boys dorm."

"Fred, I wanna go with them," Katherine argued, "I have to change."

"We'll have a change of clothes for you," Katie replied, "More people means more food."

"I'm still angry with you," Katherine hissed so only Katie heard.

"See you when you get back," Katie grinned, with a small wave, Katherine glared after her.

"Well c'mon Katty," George called.

"We're gonna have a proper party to celebrate leaving this year!" Fred announced.

"It's your own fault for staying up all night," Katherine chided as the twins groaned, again. For all they're talk the twins were absolutely useless without sleep, unless there was some major reason for them to be enthused, like a prank.

"You were up all night too," Lee pointed out, "How come you're not sleepy?"

"Because I'm not," Katherine replied, "I can manage at least one night without sleep, I'm used to staying up late reading anyway. You two, either shut it or go to sleep! You're going to wake up the others."

"So, we're almost there anyway. Might as well get 'em up now," Fred leaned forward as though to nudge Angelina but froze the moment Katherine's wand tapped his hand. He blinked up at her and she raised an eyebrow.

"You know they told me not to let you wake them up," She reminded him, stare totally unfaltering.

"Like they'd know the difference," Fred challenged, still yet to move his hand. Katherine met his eyes with a sigh, knowing what was going to happen.

…

"Kinda hate to ask but, why does Fred look so pissed off?" Alicia asked.

"He wanted to wake you up, I disagreed," Katherine replied, shrugging as she woke Katie.

"Lee you owe me a Sickle," George said as the girls focused on organising their stuff.

"Yeah, yeah," Lee replied, searching his pockets, "Ah! There."

"Why's Lee giving you money?" Katherine asked as she finished undoing the Jelly les Jinx and silencing charm she'd put on Fred.

"Lost a bet," Lee replied.

"You shouldn't bet against the twins," Katheirne replied, "They're amazingly good guessers."

"Also should have expected it when he bet against his brother," Lee grumbled as they all made their way from the train.

"Dragon boy!" Katherine yelled once she reached the Weasley family. She pulled Charlie into a hug as soon as he turned around, "Probably not gonna see you next year, so you have a good time with those dragons, and try to talk to some humans every now and then. We're actually not all that bad you know."

"Hey! I talk to people!" Charlie argued, returning the hug easily.

"Yeah, but now you're running off with the dragons, I see you becoming very antisocial," Katherine explained.

"Don't run off Katty," Fred and George chided as they walked up behind her. She'd already said hello to everyone and was preparing to leave.

"Look who's talking," Katherine replied, grinning. She gave them each a quick hug before beginning to move away, "I'm outa here, see you at the start of next term and…at least try not to be too harsh with Ginny and Ron."

"Who are you our mother?"

"Fred! George! What have you two been doing?!"

"Nope, that'll be her now," Katherine answered, laughing at the horrified looks on her friends faces, "See ya guys!"

Wasn't that fun? Anyone else realise that Katherine was calculating that Harry'd be coming to school? Math never seemed of major importance in the wizarding world, so what are they all going to get up to next year?
R & R!
Also, the swim suit Katherine wears, something like this { stockimages/Sie_Lei_Mare_Safari_One_Piece_-_ } though maybe not that pattern, it's the closest i could find to the image in my head.