Harry Potter The Unseen Heroine

My first week at Hogwarts had it's up's and down's. The positives included having friends for the first time in my life, the Professor's being generally kind and fair to us, and the amazing magic we were beginning to learn.

The down's consisted of Filch and his cat, who both seemed to hate student's with a passion, Peeves with his water balloons and scare tactics, the annoying amount of people wanting me to get Harry's autograph, and the fact that I hardly saw Harry anymore...

Sure we saw each other in the halls, and both of us had integrated well into our houses. But the fact remained, until third year we wouldn't share any classes, and after class the amount of homework meant most time spent in our respective common rooms.

Still, I was having some of the most enjoyable experience's of my life. Me, and Anthony helping Lisa get far ahead in her Muggle work, Morag's love for animals, Michael and Terry being...Michael and Terry.

"Look who it is?" Padma asked with a smirk. Michael and Terry both had woken up late...again.

"Come on guys, we've been working on homework late." Michael replied as he and Terry sat down.

"You mean the homework you should have been doing three nights ago?" Anthony asked smirking, and both Michael and Terry both went pink.

"Um..."

"I mean it's done...now."

Padma just shook her head and sighed.

"So, what classes do we have today?" Lisa asked.

"Double potions with Hufflepuff, after lunch." Anthony replied, this caused both Michael and Terry to look at the rest of us offended.

"Wait, your saying we don't have a class until this afternoon?" Terry asked annoyingly.

"Yeah." Anthony simply replied.

"But...that means. We didn't have to get up." Michael said looking at us confused and annoyed.

"No, we just decided to get up." I said.

"You...you could have told us." Terry accused.

"You both have schedules, you could have checked." Padma said grinning.

"Besides, we've all heard the rumors. We need to be prepared for Snape." Anthony said quietly.

I glanced up at the head table, the greasy blacked hair Professor looked more angry than usual. From what the older student's had told us it was best to be prepared for Snape. He'd call on you without notice, stand over you while you worked and bark orders out randomly, call you out in front of the whole class, basically if you weren't a Slytherin. He hated you.

"First potions class?" I turned back to the table, and saw Cho looking at me knowingly.

"Yeah." I replied as I turned to her.

"Good luck. Snape is...harsh. Just count yourself lucky you're not in Gryffindor. Or sharing the class with the Gryffindor's."

"Why is that?" Anthony asked.

"Because Snape hates Gryffindor's, and if you share the class with them, he'll take some of that anger out on you. Don't get me wrong, he's still a git, but not as terrible."

"Cho!" A unfamiliar voice called, and we turned to see a older boy walking towards us.

"Roger." Cho replied. It seemed all the confidence she usually possessed was gone. Replaced with worry and anticipation.

"You made it." Roger said as he came to a stop. There was silence for a moment. Then Cho...

"Yes!" She said excitedly, then hugged the girl next to her with curly, half blonde, half red hair. "I did it Marietta"

"Congrats Cho...you're hurting me." Marietta replied.

Cho loosened her hug, and took a few deep breaths. "Sorry." She told Marietta then turned back to Roger. "Thank you. Thank you so much."

"You earned it, practice starts Monday. See you then." The boy walked away, and Cho could barley contain her excitement.

"All my hard work this summer is finally paying off!" She told Marietta.

"You've earned it, you'll be amazing." The girl replied.

Cho turned back to me, and noticed my confused look.

"Sorry for...that." She said.

"It's fine."

"It's just...being seeker is a big deal."

"I'm guessing Roger's a member of the team?" I asked.

"Yeah, he's a chaser." Cho then turned to the other girl "And this is Marietta Edgecombe, I forgot you've not been introduced."

"A pleasure." The girl told me, holding out her hand.

"The same." I replied as I took it.

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