Time passes quickly, and soon it's Winter and there's snow covering the ground outside. Draco still hasn't told me what's going on with him. And Harry is getting no further into his investigation of finding out whether Draco is a death eater, I've stopped trying but I haven't told Harry yet. And if Draco decides to reveal to me that he is in fact a death eater, if he is one that is, then I shall be quiet about it, as I'm not really one to snitch. Speaking of Draco, still no one has found out about us, which I'm glad about. We do hang out a lot, which is nice, but he still doesn't tell me the things I want to know, but then again, I have to respect his privacy.
Anyway, I'm very excited now, as it's not long until Slughorns dinner party, and then Christmas with my sister! I think everyone must be sick of me now, because I keep going on about it. I've bought my sister (and Geoff) a present, it's nothing big though, it's some scented candles and some really pretty holders to put them in. I'm hoping my sister still likes scented candles, I know she did when she use to live at home.
"Not long now." Blaise laughs as he comes to sit down with me.
"Not long." I say, he's referring to my sister, I said I kept going on about it.
"What are you going to do, do you recon?" He asks.
"I don't know. Christmas and then new year. Then I'll probably come back to school and expect angry letters from my parents."
I laugh and so does Blaise. He has experienced the wrath of my parents first hand. After the Yule Ball, my parents found out about my encounter with Blaise, they picked me up from Kings Cross at the end of year, Blaise was with me and my parents basically attacked him. My dad had to be physically restrained. It was awful but hilarious at the same time.
"Do you know what you're wearing to Slughorns dinner?" Blaise asks.
"Don't know, haven't really given the outfit much though. I was just going to wear something random, I didn't know it was a formal occasion."
"Oh, I'm not sure it is, but I think we still have to dress nice."
"I'll start looking then." I say.
"You going to Hogsmead today?" Blaise asks.
"Yeah, I'm going with Dean, Ginny and Seamus. We're just going to have a few drinks in The Three Broomsticks." This reminds me, I should probably be getting ready to meet up with them soon. "Are you going?"
"Yeah, Goyle wants to show me something there, so I said he'd go with him. No idea what it, but Goyle's excited so it's probably really weird."
I nod, "Anyway, I better go know you've reminded me. Have to meet up with up with the Gryffindors haven't I? I'll see you soon." I say getting up from the chair.
"Okay, cool. See you later."
We arrive at The Three Broomsticks; it's warm inside which is nice as it shields us from the harsh weather outside.
"I'll get the Butterbeers in." Dean says, as Ginny, Seamus and I head for a table.
The room is crowed, with little seating space left, but we manage to find ourselves a booth to sit in and relax for a while.
Dean returns to the table quickly, having ordered us drinks already. He sits next to Ginny and puts his arm around her, she smiles up at him. They've been arguing lately so it's nice to see them like this.
"So, Christmas gifts?" Dean says. "What does everybody want? I'm getting mine back in Muggle town, so I'll have to mail whatever it is."
Ginny is the least cultured on Muggle things here. So anything that Dean gets her will most likely be impressive. Seamus is a half blood, so he understands the Muggle world well. And although I'm Pure Blood like Ginny, my parents insists that we live in the Muggle world and respect their ways of life.
"I'm not fussed, Dean. You don't even have to get me anything." Ginny says.
"Nope, I'm getting you all something, if you don't know now, I'll give you time to think about it. But I want answer, sooner the better."
We nod at him. The waiter comes and puts our drinks on the table.
"Thank you." I say to him.
It's then when I see Harry, Hermione and Ron come in to sit down; I don't watch them for too long as Seamus is talking to me.
"What do think life after Hogwarts will be like?" He says. "I mean, we'll have to start going to magic work and stuff, as in jobs in magic, just seems like it would be a little different from school, don't you think?"
"I guess." I say.
"Or not, we're already living with magic, so why would it be so different?" Dean asks.
"Yeah, surely magic work will just be a focus on one subject, so maybe it will kind of be like doing only one lesson." Ginny adds.
"Doing one lesson for the rest of your life." I say.
Seamus looks confused, buts nods and smiles anyway.
"It's going to get real though isn't it?" Dean says, after the conversation had more or less died.
"What do you mean?" I say.
"You-Know-Who, he's back isn't he, so something's bound to happen, wouldn't surprise me if he's planned an attack already to be honest."
Ginny, Seamus and I all look at Dean with slight shock.
"Yeah, but it's positive thinking we need right now, Dean." I smile at him, it's a smile that tells him to shut up and he understands it.
"You're right. More drinks?" He says, I look down to find that my glass is already empty.
Seamus and I decide to leave after about another hour, leaving Dean and Ginny by themselves. We are on route back to the castle when we see 4 people standing in the distance. Hagrid is there as well, holding someone in his arms.
"Let's stay here; I don't want to get caught up in that." Seamus says.
I agree so we stay back for a while, taking shelter under a nearby tree. We see Hogwarts professors turn up and take something from the ground with great caution. The four people standing by it then start walking back to the castle. I've made the people out to be, Harry, Ron, Hermione and Katie Bells friend, Leanne.
"What do you recon that was?" Seamus asks.
"I don't know, but it wasn't good that's for sure."
We head back to the castle, trying to shield ourselves from the harsh weather along the way.
When we are back in the castle, Seamus and I go our separate ways, as I am desperate to find the golden trio. As I walk along the corridor, Snape walks past me quickly, clearly in a rush. I follow after him, hoping that he'll lead me to where I need to go. Luckily, he does.
He walks through the door and I see them inside, they literally have the worst luck. Whenever something back happens they are always there.
I wait outside the door, I can mumbles from inside, but I can't make out what they are saying.
"It was him." The door opens as Harry says this to the other two. "Jasmine?" He turns and sees me.
"Hey, I saw you guys earlier, what happened?"
"Let's walk." Hermione says.
We begin to walk and Harry starts to talk again, "Katie Bell was cursed, by a necklace. She picked it up at the three broomsticks, and was going to deliver it to Dumbledore. Someone in this school is trying to kill him, Jas. And I think you can guess who."
It can't be true. "Really? How can you be sure it's him?"
"I saw him going into the toilets, when we were at the three broomsticks." Harry says.
"I still don't think you should have accused him like that though, Harry." Hermione says. "Especially when Snape was there."
Harry snapes his focus over to Hermione, "That's why I did it, to get a reaction from him. He knows what Malfoy is up too, and I just thought-"
"I know what you thought, Harry. But I still don't think we should jump to any conclusions." Hermione cuts him of by saying.
Harry turns to me, hoping I would defend him.
I shrug; I'm not sure what to think anymore. I think Harry has a point, but I don't think jumping to conclusions is wise either.
"Fine, I'm going to study." Harry says when we reach the outside of the Gryffindor common room. He hurries inside leaving Ron and Hermione with me.
"Looks like he's going to be unhappy for a while now." Hermione says. "Best just to leave him I think." She says to both Ron and I.
"I better go too." I say to them.
"Okay, see you later, Jas. Stay safe." Hermione says.
Both she and Ron then go into their common room. Although, Hermione doesn't want to jump to conclusions, she still says 'stay safe' as though Draco is a death eater. Speaking of Draco, I better go and find him.
I check the common room first and ask Blaise if he has seen him, he tells me that he saw him heading head of the common room about 10 minutes ago. So I leave again, for some reason I head the way of the great hall. The doors are closed, but with a simple unlocking charm I open them and slip inside. I don't how I knew he'd be here, I just had a feeling, and I was right. I see him sitting by himself at the Slytherin table; he's looking down at the table. I question whether to just leave him be, but I don't. I walk over to him, he doesn't look at me. Even when I sit next to him, he still doesn't look at me.
"Draco?" I ask, putting a hand on his shoulder.
He doesn't respond.
"Draco, please talk to me." I nudge him a little, his attitude right now is worrying me, it's like he knows what I'm about to ask him. "I need to talk to you about someone."
He doesn't respond, so I carry on, "Katie Bell got cursed."
He doesn't react.
"Harry thinks it was you who cursed her."
The fact he still just sits there is worrying me a lot.
"Please, Draco?" I whisper, "Just talk to me."
"I didn't curse Katie Bell." He says, his voice hoarse.
I want to believe him, but I'm not sure I do. I don't say anything to him; we just sit in silence instead.