Found AIAOY 4

Chapter 10

"Want to go up to the Owlery?"  Harry asked the second Rebecca returned to the common room, leaving before she could answer.

"Sure, why not?"  Rebecca called, irritated at the lack of explanation.  "Harry?"

"I know it's cold, okay?  We need to-"  Harry sent her a look.  "Just come!"  Rebecca followed along, stopping when Harry did in the middle of the bridge where no students were in sight.  "I have to talk to you."

"Yeah?  I couldn't tell."

"Rebecca, this is serious!"  Harry snapped, daring her to make a joke on that internally.  "Hagrid's asked me down to his hut at midnight."

"Oh, alright."  Rebecca checked the time.  "What time should we leave then?"

"'We?'"  Harry repeated.  "No, I-"

"Yes, we."  Rebecca's tone made it clear that he wasn't going anywhere without him.  "He must know something about the first event.  We'll both go down to see, then talk to Sirius."  Rebecca thought for a moment, tallying up the hours those would take.  "Then you'll go on to bed and I'll take the cloak down to the library to research whatever it is we learn."

"I can't just go to bed while you're working all night!"  Harry said exasperatedly, turning and looking into the distance visible from the height they were had reached on the way towards the Owlery.  "That's-"

"That's exactly what's going to happen!"  Rebecca's tone was icier than the wind blowing over them.  "You're not going to be exhausted for Tuesday."

Footsteps coming up from behind them paused the squabble.  The interruptor wore a blue-and-silver scarf and looked at Harry shyly, Cho Chang apologising for interrupting.

"You didn't."  Harry said quickly, smiling.

Rebecca looked at Harry and then Cho before looking back to Harry.

"That's good then."  Cho said, brushing past Harry on her way up to the Owlery itself.  Rebecca said nothing on Harry's change in behaviour, but she found how mushy he'd gone adorable.  Harry didn't say anything after Cho had gone, leaving Rebecca to finish their meeting.

"Can we go back in now?"  She'd already pulled her sleeves down around her hands and found that even turning away from the window didn't lessen the chill.  "It's bloody freezing out here."

Harry nodded, still upset by the idea of being sent to bed while Rebecca worked.  He listened though, as Rebecca gave him a recount of her day.  Starting with the morning with Fleur and Gabrielle to the hecticness of Hogsmeade and finding a dress, Rebecca finished with her and Fred trying to get back before the temperature dropped further.

"Only you and Fred?"  Harry clarified, confused.  The Fat Lady let them through, getting her daily dose of tea.

"Yeah, only the two of us."  Rebecca purposely kept her attention elsewhere.  "Lee ended up sleeping in and George waited for him.  I'm going to pop upstairs, you'll be alright?"

Harry sighed.  "Yes, Rebecca.  Believe it or not, I don't need constant supervision."

Rebecca pushed him lightly, smiling.  "It's not supervision, it's compationship.  Git."  She went up the stairs while Harry found a seat and waited for her, looking around the room.  Fred's gaze followed Rebecca up the stairs before turning back to the book he had been holding, Harry noticing how the tips of his ears turned red.

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Upstairs, Hermione was tearing around the room like a whirlwind.  "I can't find the book on the history of the tournament!"  Hermione's head appeared from the other side of her bed as she popped up to ask Rebecca about it.  "Have you seen it?  I know I had it in here!"  Hermione found no book under her bed, just a surprising amount of Ginny's socks.