About a week after Emma had sent her letter to her parents she received a response, at breakfast a swarm of owls invaded the air and dropped letters and packages to their owners. Emma had almost forgotten she sent a letter, it had been a long week and Emma had been focusing very hard on her studies. The letter had dropped onto her plate just as she had reached for a slice of toast.

'A letter from home?' Aggie asked politely

'Oh yeah, I wrote home a little while ago. Have you gotten anything?' Emma said returning her slice of toast to its original plate.

'Not yet, my parents set me up with a lot of sweets before I left home so they probably just assume I'm good until I write to them, and I haven't really had the time'

Emma gave a small smile before ripping open the envelope, her mums large neat lettering was immediately obvious, it was nice to have a piece of home even if just something as small as her mums handwriting.

'Dear Emma,

Hello darling, your dad and I are so happy to hear that you're settling in okay. Glad to hear your making friends, we'd love to meet them at some point in the holidays. You said you are working hard but of course we expected nothing less from our beautiful daughter, please write again soon, I'd love to hear more about the school. We miss and love you.

Lots of love, mum and dad xx'

Emma lowered the letter to her lap, slightly disappointed by her parent's letter.

'Are you okay there?' George rang in, only just sitting down for breakfast along with Fred

'I could have sworn I asked if they knew anyone with the last name Lowell but they didn't answer me' Emma explained feeling genuinely disappointed.

'Maybe you thought you asked but actually you forgot? Aggie suggested

'No, I'm… certain I asked. Wait, did I? I'll send another and you all need to check I actually ask so I can stop feeling crazy' Emma said with a joking tone but she did feel crazy, she was almost certain she asked, and her parents wouldn't just ignore her, but whenever she questioned herself she became less and less certain.

'first flying lesson today!' Aggie blurted out obviously trying to distract Emma from getting lost in her own thoughts. 'Are you exited Emma?'

Emma gave her the once over before answering with a cautious tone 'yeah… I guess. I uh, yeah actually I've been looking forward to it since I saw it on the timetable!' her thoughts melting away Emma began rambling about how she thought flying would work. Her ramblings, in between mouthfuls of toast and sausages managed to take up most of the rest of breakfast time.

As the four were leaving the great hall they were stopped by Lucas.

'can we help you?' Aggie asked in a very aggressive tone. Lucas paused and looked at her with a very bored expression.

'Well you can't, but I'd like to talk to Emma' he said, maintaining his bored tone

'Yeah, I'd like to have a pet dragon but it isn't gonna happen' George jeered

Rather than making a rude comment like everyone thought he would Lucas bit his tongue, literally.

'Don't bite your tongue off! Fine! you can talk to me, okay?' Emma said, mainly because she was curious as to what he had to say. Lucas' gaze washed over Emma's friends and her gaze followed his.

'Guys, I won't be long, I'll see you in class.' Emma said, encouraging them to move along but saying it with a look that begged them to stay close enough to help her if things go pear shaped. Aggie looked almost offended, as did George but luckily for Emma Fred dragged them off clearly considering her silent plea for closeness as he dragged them so they back tracked and didn't move forward. Meaning that Lucas couldn't see them but they could see him quite clearly, staying out of earshot so Lucas wouldn't get suspicious.

When they were gone, Lucas turned to Emma and gave her a small smile, very out of character for him. He looked to the ground and pushed his long brown locks behind his ear, seeming troubled.

'So, what was so important that my friends couldn't hear?' Emma asked

'I wanted to apologise for my actions last week, and how I've treated you in general.' He seemed genuine, so Emma was open to hearing what he had to say.

'Can I ask why you did that?' Emma wasn't trying to upset or pry but she really wanted to know.

'I… my whole family doesn't like mud bloods but I… I got a letter from my dad that changed my opinion.'

'What did your dad say?' Emma blurted out, she couldn't help it, nothing this mysterious had ever happened to her in her whole life. Lucas looked very uncomfortable, staring dead at Emma.

'I, don't think I should say. But perhaps we can be friends?'

'Was that a suggestion from your dad?' Emma asked with a small laugh, Lucas shared the small laugh with her. It was odd seeing him let his guard down, even if just to share a laugh.

'If you really want then… then of course we can be friends. Do you want to walk to the next lesson with me?' Emma asked shyly.

'Yeah, I'd like that.' Lucas said looking sheepishly at the floor.

'Mind if my friends join?'

'Did they ever leave?' Lucas asked glancing at the trio behind him.

Emma could feel herself going red 'I… I thought you wouldn't notice' Emma sighed.

'I'm not stupid Amelia.'

'I uh, don't call me that.' Emma said rather flustered. She could see Lucas smiling from ear to ear, he clearly meant nothing by it.

'Wait how did you know that was my name?'

Lucas' face dropped 'Uh, HEY GUYS!' he called out to the people following and they sped up their pace to catch up.

'Yeah? What's wrong?' Asked Aggie

'Are you okay?' George asked putting his hand gently on her shoulder.

'Yeah, I'm fine.' Emma brain was rattling around in her head, that was a weird and annoying way to avoid her question. 'Lucas is going to walk to flying with us.'

The trio thought about it for a moment before cautiously accepting his being there. Lucas offered his hand and a warm smile to all three one at a time, first Fred, then George ending with Aggie.

There was mostly an awkward silence as they walked to class occasionally interrupted by Emma trying to start a conversation.

By the time they were at class and the professor had arrived they had endured about as much awkward silence as they could take. They were taught how to make their broom fly into their hands, then how to mount their broom and then how to hover just above ground. Emma didn't find flying as easy as she thought she would, she would often wobble on the broom despite all the pointers and tips she was given by her professor, and her friends who all seemed to find it easier than her.

After floating shakily a few times her broom stiffened and she stopped wobbling.

'Guys look! I think I'm doing it!' Emma yelled

Everyone turned to look at her and even the professor gave a kind smile, but suddenly her smile dropped. Emma's broom started rising, slowly but surely getting higher and higher.

'Okay that's enough you need to come down!' ordered the professor, but she couldn't. it felt like she had no control over her broom at all

'I'm not doing this!' Emma yelled, she tried to go down but it felt like an invisible forcefield was keeping her from doing anything but go up.

She scanned the crowd of pupils to see if anyone was causing this to happen.

'THEM RIGHT THERE!' Emma screamed gesturing to the person enchanting her broom

'IT'S-' but she was cut off, just as she spoke the spell stopped and Emma plummeted to the ground.

'Everyone stand back!' cried the professor rushing to Emma's side.

The class had ran and crowded her as soon as she hit the floor, George was holding Emma's torso in his lap trying to keep her somewhat upright. While everyone was muttering comments of shock and disbelief George was calling out to Emma trying to get her to respond.

'Emma! Come on Emma wake up!' His voice was strained and fast paces he clearly didn't know what to do.

'Out of the way Mr. Weasley! Ill deal with it from here.' The Professor gestured for all the students to stand back as she tried to get George to let go of Emma.

'Go get help then you can take her!' George insisted. Although angry because of George disobeying her instruction she realised it was probably best.

'Im going to go find someone to help me get Emma to the nurse, everyone go back to your common rooms, NOW!' the professor announced to the class. As everyone ran off back to their rooms George, Fred and Aggie were left protecting their friend.

Hey! Hope you enjoyed. I'm sorry I missed a week, I'm back in school now so most of my time is taken up but I'll try my best to keep the chapters regular. As always feel free to DM me and a review is always appreciated! Until next time!