Weapon ~ harry potter

Chapter 7 : Tallest tower

When Charlotte woke up two weeks later, she found herself smiling at the memory of hers and Harry little escapade to the kitchen. After showering, she headed to the dining hall wearing a simple white turtleneck, a low waist pair of jean and a blue coat. Diane's ring on her right hand's fourth finger. She made her way to the staff table, her messy hair bouncing at her rhythm. She sat at her usual place next to Filius to whom she started to talk when owls came flying in the Great Hall.

This was one of Charlotte's favorite moment, seeing all the excited faces of teenagers, some ashamed when they received howlers. She was woken out of her thoughts by a letter dropping on her marmalade toast.

"Oh come on !" she groaned, opening the letter only to see a blank piece of parchment. Understanding, she got up, taking a toast from Fred's plate when she passed by and got out of the Great Hall to find a place where she could be alone. "Revelio."

Order meeting about what you heard.
Leaky Cauldron at 7 pm.
Moony will pick you up.

She burned the paper right after reading it. She made her way back to the Great Hall and patted Harry on the shoulder.

"Hey can I talk to you ?" she queried the boy. He narrowed his eyes;

"Sure," he got up and once there were just the two of them he added, "Is everything okay ?"

She sent him a smile, making his cheeks a little more pink than usual,

Was he worried about me ? she couldn't help but think.

"Yeah don't worry everything is fine. I have to attend an Order meeting so I'm obviously going to bring frog face in, " he started to shake his head so she quickly added, "but I won't tell them about your detentions except if you want me too."

"No, I'll tell them when a better time comes, with everything going on with Sturgis and all. Besides I already send a letter to Sniffle about how my scar hurt that day-"

"What ?" Charlotte gasped, staring at him with wide eyes, "Your scar hurt again ? Why didn't you tell me ?"

The boy slumped his shoulder, looking down at his feet ;

"Well with everything going on, and with the Quidditch training with Ron I- I forgot. I'm sorry." he mumbled, still not looking at her. She took his left hand not to hurt his injured one, she felt a little ashamed for raising her tone like that.

"It's okay. I'm sorry I raised my voice like that, just- just tell me next time your scar hurt." He finally looked at her blue eyes

Both feeling their cheeks warming up, they parted their hands before biding each other goodbye.

Charlotte spent the rest of the day roaming around the castle, a book about astronomy she borrowed from Sirius. She ended by finding the Astronomy tower, which of course became her favorite place of Hogwarts. She loved the view from up there. You could see the Forbidden Forest, or at least some kind of green velvet carpet. But what amused her the most was the quill planted on top of the Gryffindor tower. Apparently, the Gryffindor students got a little mad when they learned that the Ravenclaw tower was the tallest of the castle, so a group of Gryffindor students managed to go on top of their tower and planted a quill which added seven inches to their tower, making it the tallest.

She sat down, back against the tower's wall. She opened the book at her favorite chapter, The Serpentis Constellation, and began to read even though she knew it by heart. When she looked up again, the sun was about to set. Panicked, she looked at her watch, 6.52 pm. She panicked even more as she started to run down the corridors, the book still in hand. Albus' office was a the opposite side of the castle. Why am I always late ?